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The integrated reservoir absorption centre, designed to automate Chennai’s large reservoirs operations and upgrade real-time monitoring of their storage, is acceptable for commissioning.
The World Bank-aided ₹32-crore project, executed by the Water Resources Department (WRD), aims astatine mitigating floods, expanding effect time, and facilitating transparency successful sharing details astir the reservoirs.
Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin is expected to inaugurate the centre connected Varuna Salai adjacent Napier Bridge.
The waterbodies, which are premier sources of drinking h2o supply, present person a combined retention of 11,175 cardinal cubic feet (mcft), which is 95% of their retention capacity.
WRD officials said a marginal magnitude of h2o was inactive being released from Chembarambakkam and Poondi reservoirs to equilibrium storage. These waterbodies proceed to person inflow from catchment areas.
Once the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)-based determination enactment strategy is successful place, the section volition beryllium capable to remotely run the reservoir shutters from the centralised monitoring installation successful the city.
The waterbodies successful Chembarambakkam, Red Hills, and Poondi person been equipped with assorted automation facilities, including gross presumption sensors and automated rainfall gauges, to measurement inflow and outflow successful the reservoirs and from assorted points successful the catchment areas.
The determination enactment strategy volition collate information from aggregate sources to measure the precise clip required for the reservoirs to capable up and to find timely h2o releases to avert flash floods and heighten operational ratio during the summer.
The centralised monitoring installation volition beryllium integrated with on-site power rooms constructed astatine the reservoir sites. “We program to screen 2 different metropolis reservoirs successful Thervoy Kandigai Kannankottai and Cholavaram successful the adjacent phase. Such SCADA-based automated strategy volition beryllium installed successful each dams crossed the State successful a phased manner, and monitored from the reservoir absorption centre successful Chennai,” an authoritative said.
The section besides plans to screen large tanks specified arsenic Madurantakam and Pillaipakkam successful the adjacent phases to negociate some floods and droughts.
