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Several streets successful Nedungundram colony adjacent Agaramthen person been inundated owed to the lack of integrated storm-water drains. The locality has go salient aft Tambaram East Bypass Road was laid to nexus GST Road with Velachery Main Road. The country has besides been witnessing immense existent property maturation with respective multi-storey apartments coming up.
Despite the beingness of a ample fig of multi-storey apartments residents person to contend with atrocious roads and the deficiency of a due storm-water drain installation successful Puthur, Sri Sai Avenue, Perumalpuram, Mappedu, Krishna Nagar, and Bharathidasan Nagar.
Herbertraj, a nonmigratory of Sri Sai Avenue, said each twelvemonth the locality was flooded owing to deficiency of due drains. He said residents of Puthur had been experiencing inundation during monsoons for the past 7 years, with nary remedial measures having been taken by gross officials of Chengalpattu district.
Social activistic and a geographic accusation strategy (GIS) advisor Dayanand Krishnan said flooding successful Nedungundram happened arsenic a effect of rainwater runoff from 4 waterbodies, including Nedungundram and New Perungalathur Lakes. He has conducted a GIS survey for flood mitigation successful the locality, wherein helium has sought for the operation of macro channels for draining surplus h2o from the Nedungundram Lake.
The residents said the GIS study for flood mitigation had been readied and submitted to each officials, including the Chengalpattu Collector, but nary steps had been taken successful this regard. The Water Resources Department (WRD) has a connection to physique channels to span the missing links betwixt assorted waterbodies draining into the Pallikaranai marshland.
WRD officials said the Puthur Thangal Lake successful Tambaram fell nether the jurisdiction of the St. Thomas Mount Block Development Office (BDO). Given the interaction of past floods, the St. Thomas Mount BDO has projected a ₹15-crore task to conception a transmission to reconstruct the missing nexus betwixt the water and Pallikaranai marshland.
After the task support and backing assistance are obtained, the task to conception a canal volition beryllium executed adjacent twelvemonth to curb inundation successful the residential areas. The WRD implemented a akin task to convey the surplus h2o from the Narayanapuram Lake to Pallikaranai marshland.
