Tamil devi priya hot still5/25/2023 ![]() Inundation complaints were received from 138 locations, of which only 11-12 locations had 3-4 ft water till late evening on Tuesday. Desilting 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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