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The stormwater drain web astatine Karpagam Gardens successful Besant Nagar was successful a signifier of limbo. It is present making progress, moving towards a monsoon result agelong sought by residents. Evidence of the advancement is disposable astatine the junction of Karpagam Gardens First Main Road and Besant Avenue Road.
A stormwater drain, made up of precast blocks, moves transversely from this junction to the different broadside of Besant Avenue Road, wherever the SWD enactment continues for a while, being constructed successful situ, and travels further towards its eventual destination, the Adyar river.
“The stormwater drain from Karpagam Gardens crosses Besant Avenue Road other the Enfield showroom and goes wrong Ramaswamy Garden Road and cuts near into Vasatha Press Road (where Shankara schoolhouse is located). It past cuts close other Malar and past exits into Adyar river,” says Abhishek V.N., a nonmigratory of Karpagam Gardens who has been tracking this contented on with the cardinal members of Karpagam Gardens Welfare Association.
Karpagam Gardens residents had for agelong reiterated that the existing SWD web was not of dimensions that could instrumentality dense inflow of stormwater.
A transversely moving SWD consisting of precast blocks has been constructed from southbound broadside of Besant Avenue Road to the northbound broadside (landmark: a constabulary booth). Karpagam Gardens residents person for agelong reiterated that the existing SWD had collapsed. Hence the transversely moving SWD. A SWD being constructed successful situ takes the baton next. The images were taken connected October 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK
“Besides, the existing stormwater drain netowrk had collapsed successful astatine slightest 3 places — connected the Shankara schoolhouse side, adjacent the Ramaswamy Garden Road junction and Besant Avenue Road junction,” observes Abhishek.
“Based connected our request, the Corporation has revamped the full web and expanded the drain to grip the further rains. The last junction enactment astatine the Besant avenue crossing Karpagam Garden First Main Road is being carried retired present which volition implicit the network. The last enactment took a portion reportedly owed to permissions that had to beryllium given,” helium adds.
The value of the SWD web successful Karpagam Gardens extends beyond the neighbourhood.
Abhishek connected the wherefore of it.
“This drain web besides clears rainwater from Shastri Nagar owed to interconnectedness, and this is the way for the stormwater to scope Adyar river. Another web successful Shastri Nagar connects to the Buckingham Canal adjacent the MRTS line.”
