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 …
CHENNAI: The State government on Thursday sought time to appoint a Conservator to river Cooum as directed by the Southern Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT). On February 6, the tribunal had directed the government to appoint a Conservator for Cooum river following a petition seeking restoration of the highly-polluted …
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) Southern Bench has restrained the Chennai Corporation from dumping garbage on the banks of the Cooum river in Nolambur. The Bench, comprising its judicial member Justice M. Chockalingam and expert member R. Nagendran, passed the order based on a petition from V. Prabhakaran, of Nolambur. …
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has cleared the proposal for construction of around 15,000 tenements by the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board at Perumbakkam. The clearance follows the TNSCB fulfilling the requirement of constructing an 18-metre-wide road near the multi-storeyed buildings. The move seeks to facilitate the resettlement and …
The change in the land use pattern due to rapid urbanization adversely affects the hydrological processes in a catchment, leading to a deteriorating water environment. The increase in impervious areas disrupts the natural water balance. Reduced infiltration increases runoff and leads to higher flood peaks and volumes even for short …
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 …
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 …
300 cars will be accommodated on the 5-metre-wide strip A parking lot for 300 cars on Link Road, near the busy Spencer junction on Anna Salai, will become operational in the next few weeks. The Chennai Corporation will soon appoint a private agency to operate and maintain the facility.
CHENNAI: The Chennai Auto Ancillary Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Company (CAAIIUC) held an interactive meeting with the unit holders of the Ambattur Industrial Estate on Saturday, to discuss various issues including stop sending treated water into Cooum river and Korattur lake. Infrastructure problems in the area and measures taken towards it …
CHENNAI: A study on the toxic nature of the sediments in the Cooum river is being conducted by the Chennai River Restoration Trust. The study is to take preventive measures on any possible impact on human health during dredging. The Trust has collected samples from various points across the stretch …
Ask Chennai's fisherfolk and they will tell you that the road to hell is built on stilts. Various Central and state government agencies plan to construct three controversial expressways on stilts in the coastal city. These roads will displace more than 1 lakh people — mostly urban poor — and …
Shivakumar | ENS RTI query reveals contractor was paid `240 cr even before receiving clearance for the project THE `1,655-crore elevated expressway from Chennai Port Trust to Maduravoyal is yet to get government approval, according to information under the Right to Information (RTI). In a reply to an RTI application …
Express News Service Chennai, August 4 WITH the full cooperation of the Corporation, the Public Works Department and the Slum Clearance Board, the polluted Cooum river would be restored in another five to six years, Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin has claimed.Speaking to reporters after inaugurating two Corporation parks …
SLUM dwellers facing the danger of eviction sent 100 telegrams to Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Friday to cancel the clearance given by the ministry to the elevated Expressway from the port to Maduravoyal, running across the River Cooum. The clearance given a few days back …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS Around 475 outlets of untreated sewage continue to pollute Cooum River even now, when the government has been trying to restore it. Metrowater till date has identified 57 of them, which they hope to plug in a few years -- Sitharam Gurumurthi Waterways in the city …
TANNERIES in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city's water- ways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strate- gies to make the units adhere to zero discharge, according to R Ramachan- dran, member secretary, TNPCB. At a seminar …
T. Ramakrishnan SCE is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding in February with the Cooum Sub-basin Restoration and Management Unit. CHENNAI: The Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE), a body floated by the Singaporean government, will be associated with the Cooum beautification project. Originally, the Public Utilities Board (PUB) was to …
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: The Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Singapore, the water agency of the Southeast Asian country, has agreed to cooperate with the State government in preparing a comprehensive conceptual master plan for the restoration of the Cooum river. The plan would cover issues such as the identification and …
Adopting the Singapore model to beautify the Cooum is not very convincing. While the Singapore River Cleaning project was environment-centric, the Cooum model appears to be beautification oriented, which could be mostly cosmetic, says M G Devasahayam FOR once Cooum is in the news for the right reasons. As one …
