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WRD to dry up 28 tanks to hold excess water during monsoon
The New Indian Express Chennai
|September 07, 2025
WITH the northeast monsoon nearing, the Water Resources Department (WRD) has planned to completely dry up 28 tanks, excluding major reservoirs, within the Greater Chennai Corporation limits to significantly reduce the chances of flooding in the city and surrounding areas.
Apart from this, the WRD has constructed new regulators at Porur, Cholavaram, Puzhal, and Korattur lakes this year to use them instead of surplus weirs for better flood management. A few more proposals have been given to the state government to construct more regulators in and around Chennai.
These 28 tanks, with a water spread area of over 11,086 hectares, can hold about 6.33 million cubic metres (or 0.22 tmc) of water.
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