107 locations in Chennai have hyperlinks lacking in drain community

Chennai Corporation has created momentary preparations for draining water from 107 areas with lacking hyperlinks in drain community owing to incomplete stormwater drain work. The civic physique has additionally created barricades to forestall accidents on the development web site.

The launch of labor on lots of the stormwater drains had been delayed due to main infrastructure initiatives throughout town and rise in site visitors congestion brought on by site visitors diversions alongside roads. The civic physique has put in heavy responsibility pumps on the areas to forestall flooding as heavy rains are anticipated this week.

Missing hyperlinks have been recognized in 107 areas akin to Kadumbadi Amman Koil avenue in ward 34, Pycrofts Road in ward 63, United India First Cross Street in ward 96, Valluvar Kottam High Road in ward 110, and Alagirisamy Street in ward 137.

Many stretches are reportedly liable to flooding due to small gaps within the drain community. For occasion, alongside Devi Karumariamman Koil Street in ward 128 a lacking hyperlink of hole 17 metres has reportedly elevated the flood danger within the space. “We have put in pumps. We have erected flex boards and barricades,” mentioned an official. 

Nungambakkam resident R.B. Saravanan mentioned stormwater drain work alongside Nungambakkam High Road ought to have been accomplished forward of the northeast monsoon by higher coordination with the Traffic Police and different businesses akin to Metrorail. “Residents in neighbourhoods within the neighborhood of Metrorail works are frightened due to the delay in completion of the work,” he mentioned.

T.Ok. Shanmugham, president of the Federation of North Chennai Residents’ Welfare Associations, mentioned residents’ associations visited numerous flood-prone areas to examine whether or not the work has been accomplished.

“We discovered many drains have been efficiently accomplished by GCC this yr. Several canals by WRD have additionally been improved. However, a number of have been delayed. We visited Kargil Nagar in Tiruvottiyur the place flooding was greater than six toes within the earlier years, affecting 10,000 households. We discovered that work on shutter and pumping preparations has been performed. GCC has linked half an acre of waterbody with Buckingham Canal, for draining water into Kosasthalaiyar. But the work on the three-feet excessive wall alongside the Buckingham canal by the WRD has not been performed. This might result in flooding,” he mentioned.

Residents have additionally demanded the three-feet dredging of Kodungaiyur Canal and Captain Cotton Canal. WRD has accomplished work of widening Thanikachalam Nagar Surplus Canal to hold surplus water from Kolathur Lake to forestall flooding in ward 30 and ward 31, officers mentioned.