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Work to reconstruct the main canals of the Wellington lake, which is maintained by the Water Resources Department (WRD), successful Thittakudi successful Cuddalore territory has commenced.
Accompanied by Collector Sibi Adhithya Senthil Kumar, Minister for Labour and Skill Development C.V. Ganesan, laid the instauration chromatic for the restoration of the water astatine a outgo of ₹130 crore.
Mr. Ganesan said the task was announced by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin during his sojourn to the flood-affected regions successful Cuddalore territory successful 2024. Though the water had been desilted respective times successful the past, this was the archetypal clip a implicit restoration of the waterbody was being taken up.
A elaborate geo-technical survey of the water was conducted by the WRD precocious and the lake’s embankments would beryllium reconstructed. In addition, factual walls would beryllium constructed connected some sides of the main canals of the lake, helium said.
The Minister said that the drainage transmission of the Wellington water was constructed during 1913-23. The 114-metre-wide channel, which was present severely damaged and weakened, would beryllium reconstructed and an further span and drainage transmission would besides beryllium built for discharging surplus h2o from the lake, helium said.
The enactment connected completion would payment a full of 24,059 acres of cultivable onshore successful 63 villages successful Thittakudi and Vriddhachalam taluks, helium added.
