Park coming up along B-Canal in Chepauk

On Swami Sivananda Salai successful Chepauk, by the broadside of the Buckingham Canal wherever old, practice navigational locks stand, their robust chipping distant connected relationship of a corrosive caress of salty air, coffee-coloured soil is being piled up.

Tipper lorries belch retired dredged worldly which is past levelled by a JCB. The levelling enactment has formed a neat plateau connected apical of the piled-up material. This dredged worldly is generated by the desilting enactment being carried retired by Water Resources Department connected a 7.3-km agelong of the Buckingham Canal, from Swami Sivananda Salai to Raja Annamalai Puram.

According to a WRD root acquainted with the work, the soil is being collected for usage successful river-front development-beautification exercises.

In an inaugural driven by the Deputy Chief Minister’s office, a agelong of the canal, from Swami Sivananda Salai to Chepauk MRTS, was explored to place a abstraction suitable for this signifier of development. This conception connected Swami Sivananda Salai was settled upon arsenic it checked each the boxes the request to beryllium checked, says the WRD official, adding that a parkland and a walkway are among the features of this beautification exercise.

Heritage locks

The authoritative besides underlines a connection to reconstruct the navigational locks recovered connected this conception successful a mode that does not instrumentality distant from their originality. And helium adds that the program goes beyond conscionable restoring them for the practice worth they bring, but besides to marque them functional erstwhile again arsenic navigational locks. It is successful alignment with efforts to reconstruct the Buckingham Canal to its archetypal quality arsenic a navigational way for watercraft.

The WRD authoritative notes that the chromatic masonry enactment is cardinal to the essence of these navigational locks and that is intact; the robust materials are the ones that would necessitate to beryllium re-fabricated and refitted.