The Hindu 15.12.2011
Corporation busy widening storm water drains in city
Natural drains being deepened and cleaned
Work in progress: One of the storm water drains that Coimbatore
Corporation has taken up for widening and desilting, in the city. –
PHOTO: S.SIVA SARAVANAN
The Coimbatore Corporation as part of its storm water drain project is also widening existing drains.
Sources
in the civic body said that at places where the drains exist, it was
widening and deepening them to suit the present conditions.
Since
the time the old drains were built, things had changed. More buildings
had come up, the impermeable area had gone up and so had the inflow of
rain water.
It was carrying out one such work near
Race Course, the sources said and added it was deepening the drain and
placing cover slabs to help pedestrians.
The
Corporation, in a phased manner, is building storm water drains across
the city at Rs. 180 crore as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission project.
As part of the project the
civic body will also desilt, clean and deepen natural drains so that the
water from the storm water drains have a free flow through the natural
drains before draining into the tanks in the city.