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In a bid to support flood buffer retention and negociate inflow, the Water Resources Department opened shutters of the Chembarambakkam reservoir connected Tuesday evening. Water merchandise from 2 different large reservoirs is besides being maintained to forestall flash floods successful the downstream areas.
A minimal 100 cubic feet per 2nd (cusecs) of h2o was released from the Chembarambakkam reservoir, 1 of the city’s cardinal drinking h2o sources successful anticipation of much inflow during vigorous Northeast monsoon spells.
The reservoir present has a retention of 2,710 cardinal cubic feet (mcft), which is astir 75% of its full capacity, and its h2o level stands astatine 20.43 ft against the afloat level of 24 ft. “This year, the reservoir has steadfast retention compared to the aforesaid time past year, erstwhile it had lone 35% of its storage. We decided to fto retired a marginal quantity of h2o into the Adyar stream to support flood buffering capableness and alteration the reservoir to sorb further inflow during dense rainfall episodes,” said an official.
Flood h2o from catchment areas and the diversion of Krishna h2o boosted the storage. “We person adopted businesslike reservoir routing measures to equilibrium inflow and power discharge. This volition assistance optimise retention aft monsoon portion ensuring flood power during utmost upwind events,” the authoritative added. The h2o discharge whitethorn beryllium accrued depending connected the travel into the reservoir. The section has besides issued flood warnings successful debased level areas, including Kundrathur, Thirumudivakkam, and Tiruneermalai.
While the h2o discharge from Red Hills reservoir has been accrued from 300 cusecs to 500 cusecs connected Tuesday morning, the aforesaid magnitude is being released from Poondi reservoir into Kosasthalaiyar river. “We person already written to Andhra Pradesh authorities to halt Krishna h2o merchandise to Chennai. We privation to support the reservoirs’ h2o level adjacent to the threshold bounds to trim flood risk,” said an official.
On Tuesday, the section besides opened flood regulators of h2o bodies successful Keelkattalai and Narayanapuram to minimise inundation successful neighbouring areas. Intense rainfall successful Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts has besides led to surplus travel from immoderate cheque dams crossed the Palar stream and Cooum rivers.
