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After respective years, the important agelong of the Central Buckingham Canal is present acceptable to person long-overdue attention. Work has been expedited connected dredging the waterway to heighten its flood-carrying capableness and trim inundation successful parts of Chennai.
Every year, the Water Resources Department (WRD) clears h2o hyacinth and floating discarded from the canal, up of the rainy season. This time, the section is executing enactment to dredge the agelong up to a extent of 1 metre to region accumulated sludge and debris, which person impeded escaped travel of floodwater. It is acceptable to beryllium completed earlier the onset of the northeast monsoon.
Officials of the WRD said decades of sediment accumulation has affected the flood handling capableness of the canal, which has nary earthy slope wrong metropolis limits. The canal receives flood discharge from neighbourhoods specified arsenic Chepauk, Triplicane, Mylapore and parts of Mambalam.
The ₹31-crore task covers dredging of the 7.3-km agelong betwixt Sivananda Salai and R.A. Puram to amended the canal’s flood carrying capableness up to 2,500 cubic feet per second. Of the full stretch, astir 2.7 km of the canal has been dredged truthful far. Some of the portions taken up for cleaning see Sivarajapuram, Mattan Kuppam successful Triplicane; Govindaswamy Nagar, R.A. Puram and Slaterpuram, Mylapore.
Residents of Triplicane noted that portions of the canal adjacent MRTS stations, appeared cleaner aft galore years. T.J. Ramani, a resident, said constrictive stretches similar successful Sunkuwar Street are present escaped of garbage. This whitethorn assistance amended travel of h2o and trim mosquito menace. The authorities indispensable besides forestall sewage inflow into the waterway.
Officials said the task is being carried retired factoring successful challenges posed by MRTS pillars and encroachments. Machinery, including amphibious excavators, are being deployed to tackle constricted entree to the canal that has a varying width of 15-20 metre.
The dredged silt would beryllium transported to debased level areas identified successful Basin Bridge. Other components of the project, including slope extortion and improving the aesthetics and creating recreational spaces would beryllium taken up later.
