Chennai will get Indias first real-time flood forecast system

An actual-time flood forecast and spatial choice help system (RTFF & SDSS) has change into fully operational for Chennai. 

Billed as a complete city flood administration system and the primary of its form within the nation, the Chennai RTFF & SDSS, estimated to value about ₹107.2 crore, covers lakes, rivers, storm water drainage system and the ocean. It envisages not solely the supply of dependable forecasts of water stage in rivers and tanks but in addition that of street-level inundation forecasts for weak areas of town akin to Pulianthope,  Nungambakkam, Mambalam, Saidapet, Velachery, Meenambakkam and Mudichur.

Even although its focus space is Chennai metropolis, the system covers an space of roughly 4,974 sq km, encompassing Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu and Ranipet districts. The Adyar, Cooum, Kosasthalaiyar and Kovalam river sub-basins are being noticed below the system.  

“For the final couple of years, we [at the State Disaster Management Authority] had calibrated forecast and arrived at norms for the forecast. Till now, we didn’t contemplate no matter knowledge generated for choice making. Since the onset of the present Northeast monsoon, we’ve began sharing the forecast with departments involved for choice making,” say senior officers. They added the brand new system has been absolutely built-in with TNSMART, a web-based choice help system for every type of catastrophe. The beneficiary-agencies of the State authorities are the Water Resources Department (WRD), the Commissionerate for Revenue Administration (CRA), the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA).  

Selectively, findings of the RTFF & SDSS will probably be disseminated by means of TN-Alert, a cell utility, among the many public, one of many officers observes. Executed with the World Bank’s monetary help, the Chennai RTFF & SDSS mission has seen the involvement of the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services (TNUIFSL), which handles the mission fund, by means of the mission consultants SECON-JBA, below the technical oversight of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras. An inter-departmental workforce, comprising officers of the WRD and the GCC has been proposed to cope with the system, below the general supervision of the CRA.