The Hindu 29.06.2011
Corporation to float tenders for desilting drain network
The stormwater drain network covering a distance of 950 km across the city will be desilted before the onset of the monsoon, Mayor M.Subramanian said here on Monday.
He was reviewing the work to improve the Nandanam canal near Satyamurthy Nagar, Nandanam.
The meeting with various government agencies to discuss strategies for monsoon preparedness would be convened by August to prevent inundation.
Canal improvement
On the canals improvement project taken up under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, he said the work to concretise the canal beds and fence 16 minor waterways for a stretch of 28.64 km is in progress.
Work is under way at the 1.1 km-long Nandanam canal at a cost of Rs.8.52 crore. Improvement of the SWD network in Mambalam and Nandanam watersheds at a cost of Rs.100.64 crore is being carried out.
Nearly 30 to 40 per cent of the work to construct SWD for a distance of 504.68 km across the city at a cost of Rs.653.75 crore is in progress, he said.
