The Hindu           15.12.2011

Corporation busy widening storm water drains in city

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.