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For astir a week now, astatine 1 constituent the thrust from Sholinganallur to Medavakkam (and vice versa) down Perumbakkam Main Road has an undulating feeling to it. One fractional of a span nether operation by State Highways — Construction & Maintenance, City Roads, has been unwrapped. It is being scuffed by tyres moving successful some directions. Two-way postulation is being accommodated connected this section, adjacent arsenic the decks are being cleared for the operation of the different fractional of the bridge.
The telos, the eventual intent of this span lies not successful its aboveground but nether it. It is being constructed to summation the grade of the surplus h2o flowing (the width of the flow) from the Perumbakkam wetland to Okkiyam Maduvu during times of flooding. It is replacing the existing culvert (it has successful information replaced fractional of it) that is excessively constrictive to process immense volumes of h2o gushing successful during floods.
The aged culvert was considerably smaller than the wide transmission it was directing the waters into. It was similar a puny small ft successful a size-13 shoe. From the fractional of it that is retired determination to see, the span present matches the magnitude of this channel, which carries surplus h2o from Perumbakkam wetland to Okkiyam Maduvu.
On October 10, 2025, a demolition instrumentality was putting its backhoe to use, probing into the roadworthy and breaking up what laic nether it —the remaining portion of the old, ineffectual culvert.
According to an AE from State Highways — Construction & Maintenance, City Roads, though the span connected this broadside would instrumentality clip to beryllium constructed, the existing installation with added measures successful the days to travel would beryllium adjacent to immoderate challenges the upcoming NE monsoon mightiness propulsion up. The authoritative pointed retired the roadworthy would beryllium opened up on with the existing portion of aged culvert to supply leeway for the flood waters to travel from Perumbakkam wetland into the wide transmission that links to Okkiyam Maduvu, which successful turns disgorges into the Buckingham Canal, and yet the sea.
The authoritative added that inputs from the Water Resources Department were taken into relationship portion readying the plan of the span and executing it.
