Report filed on behalf of Greater Chennai Corporation regarding pollution of Adyar estuary. Under the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust (CRRT) project of eco restoration of Cooum river, construction of compound wall, boundary fence of the Cooum river have been taken up for a length of 23.92 km for preventing encroachments …
Work on preparation of Master Plan over The Chennai River Restoration Trust will soon make an application seeking environmental clearance for the second phase of Adyar Poonga from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The work on preparation of Master Plan for seeking approval from the Union Ministry of …
Instead of letting out excess water into sea, it will be diverted to the waterway The Water Resources Department (WRD) is planning to carry out flushing of the Cooum river in a few days with the surplus water from Poondi reservoir. The water level in the reservoir has improved considerably …
Let out by residents living along banks and even government agencies Buckingham Canal is the most polluted of the three major waterways in the city with nearly 60 per cent of the estimated 55 million litres of untreated sewage being let into it daily, including by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply …
Conservancy operations in 88 sq km of the expanded city will be entrusted to a private operator by the Chennai Corporation. The civic body on Thursday invited bids for selection of the operator for collection, segregation, transportation and disposal of garbage in the proposed new zones of Teynampet (Zone IX), …
Polluted stretches of the coastal belt between Pulicat and Kanyakumari, including major tourist destinations along the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coast will be cleaned on September 3 as part of the International Coastal Clean-up Day. Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Rear Admiral (retired) K. R. Srinivasan, vice-president of the Indian …
It is expected to decongest traffic during rush hour on Thiru Vi Ka Bridge CHENNAI: Construction of a three-lane bridge adjacent to the Thiru Vi Ka Bridge across the Adyar river is expected to be completed in a year. Over 70 per cent of the work on the foundation has …
Of 650 extant two decades ago, only a fraction remains; water shortages, flooding a direct consequence CHENNAI: About two decades ago, a research project by the Centre for Environmental and Water Resource Engineering, IIT Madras estimated that about 650 waterbodies existed in the Chennai region. More than half of them …
CHENNAI: The best way to bid adieu to tobacco is perhaps to ensure that those who give it up are rewarded. At Abirami Mall, five volunteers who offered to quit smoking on Sunday received free entry to one of its popular entertainment stalls. The mall's executive director Nallammai Ramanathan said …
B. Aravind KumarChennai: The master plan for eco-restoration of the Adyar estuary is ready and work is expected to begin in a month.IL&FS Ecosmart, consultant for eco-restoration of Adyar estuary, submitted the master plan to the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL) last week. Ecosmart has proposed three …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan and K. Lakshmi PREPARATORY WORK: Stormwater drains on Pantheon road being attended to . CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation has identified a total of 1,500 overflow connections to its stormwater drain (SWD) network and 267 sewer outfalls from the network into the Cooum and Adyar rivers. The major …
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited has awarded the contract to Wilbur Smith Associates for preparing a feasibility report for the four circular bus corridors in Chennai and the detailed project report for the first leg of this Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS), which starts from Adyar …
THE Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State Government on a public interest writ petition that sought to put the administration on the mat for releasing untreated sewage water directly or indirectly into the city's waterways. Petitioner V Ravichandran, founder-chairman of an NGO, Cit izens Guardians, alleged …
The Madras High Court has issued notice to the Union and the state government on a petition for stopping construction of a multi-storeyed building in the Santhome area near Adyar creek in Chennai. Environment groups say that one of the main reasons for the accelerated rate of deterioration of the …
