An previous arch-type stormwater drain on the northern part of Pantheon Street — the place the gated neighborhood RWD Corniche is located — was displaying its weathered underbelly within the morning of October 22. Its contours have been clearly uncovered; so have been these of its co-passengers, the utility traces, down Pantheon Street.

The cables and pipes have been caressing one in every of arch-drain’s flanks, each of which had been chiselled away to hold out a desilting train. A pipe supplying Metro Water’s ingesting water was “weeping” profusely.

A Larger Chennai Company official near this improvement notes the quick part of the previous stormwater drain was opened up and was a trench to make sure all the line was desilted.

Reportedly, a brilliant sucker machine pressed into service wolfed up mud and silt within the previous drain and spat it out.

The GCC official notes the cables and pipes can be tucked again in place and changed, wherever mandatory, earlier than the ditch of the previous arch-type drain is “stitched up” once more.

The Egmore roundabout is now believed to be the meetup level of spanking-new and legacy stormwater drains.

A brand new stormwater drain constructed on the part of Pantheon Street — the place Authorities Maternity Hospital and Tamil Nadu AIDS Management Society are positioned — can be blooded this North-East monsoon.

On the opposite aspect, the place Asoka Resort is located, an previous stormwater drain runs. The GCC official additional reveals that the aspect of Police Commissioner Workplace Street (the place the Maternity hospital has a gate) has a contemporary stormwater drain. On the opposite aspect of this street, the place the Police Officers’ Mess is located, an arch drain runs, and it extends into the northern part of Pantheon Street, working in entrance of RWD Corniche.

The brand new SWD line on Pantheon Street was going to be linked to this arch-type drain, however the train has been positioned on the again burner. The official remarks the prevailing stormwater drain community in and across the Egmore roundabout would ship outcomes, even with out this new hyperlink stepping in as a reinforcement.