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In presumption of dense rainfall received during the northeast monsoon, the discharge from the Chembarambakkam reservoir into the Adyar was accrued to 945 cusecs connected Friday. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin visited the Adyar estuary adjacent Srinivasapuram and oversaw the works nether mode to facilitate the draining of runoff from adjacent areas into the Bay of Bengal.
The Chief Minister advised officials to undertake steps specified arsenic employing further machinery for widening and desilting the estuary to alteration escaped travel of floodwaters.
Minister Ma. Subramanian, MLA N. Ezhilan, and officials from the Water Resources Department and Greater Chennai Corporation accompanied Mr. Stalin.
Water proviso schemes
In different development, Municipal Administration Minister K.N. Nehru connected Friday directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board to resume astatine the soonest the cognition of combined h2o proviso schemes affected by floods and dense northeast monsoon rainfall crossed the State to guarantee capable drinking h2o proviso to residents.
A property merchandise said helium reviewed the advancement of works undertaken by the TWAD to reconstruct 89 combined h2o proviso schemes successful assorted districts. Of these, restoration is nether mode successful remaining 33 schemes.
Mr. Nehru besides reviewed the presumption of the ongoing 31 combined h2o proviso schemes and 10 sewerage projects successful Tamil Nadu. The TWAD Board supplies astir 2,248 mld of h2o to 5.28 crore residents successful the State., the merchandise said.
