4/10/2023 0 Comments Tamil devi priya hot stillDesilting of water channels and major canals over the past few months has also helped. A ground report by TOI revealed that water stagnation didn't last beyond an hour or two, indicating that the civic body's 157-km new storm water drains worked well. More than 19,000 civic personnel, including Mayor R Priya and Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi spent hours visiting waterlogged locations and inspecting or documenting the performance of the multi-hundred-crore storm water drain network which is not yet fully functional. On Tuesday, the civic body had to press only 156 pumps into service. Last year, however, 167 locations were waterlogged at the end of the first-day spells, prompting the Greater Chennai Corporation to deploy about 1,200 motor pumps. By Tuesday, the city and its suburbs received 10-13cm rainfall, bringing at least 50 locations under a sheet of water, inundating two underpasses and causing treefalls at 35 locations. CHENNAI: The first-day first-show of this year's monsoon was intense as expected, but the city's newly built stormwater drains and other infrastructure stood up to the nearly 24-hour intermittent spell of rain.
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