Gurgaon: Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will develop 137 ponds in the city belts to maintain rainwater and prevent flooding, the fall of heavy rain spells that are inevitable in a city that is paralyzed by poor drainage and the destruction of natural waterways due to concrete development and concrete development Urban.
Officials said the decision was taken during the meeting of the GMDA citizen advisory board on Friday, and direction was given to the institution, including the corporation of Gurgaon City (MCG), to start working.
Speaking to Toi, a senior GMDA official said, “Waterlogging in the city and the use of green belts to resolve the problem is widely discussed at Friday’s meeting.
It was decided that Gurgaon must be made fully free of waterlogging, and the pool in a green belt will be used to help achieve this goal .
The main motive is that rainwater should not flow onto the road.
“There were several ponds in a gurgaon green belt which was already very old but had dried up for years and stretched ignored, the official added.
“A total of 137 ponds have been identified by GMDA, and the decision has been made to develop it so that the rain water is transferred to the pool instead of flooding streets.
The pool will also act as a catchment area.
It will reserve commuter and citizens some problems that are Each monsoon appears.
After this pool is ready, rain water will flow directly into it and the waterlogging problem will be resolved to a certain extent, “the official said.
GMDA has adopted a similar strategy to prevent golf along the road golf course, which is largely not affected by the rain this year even though it is one of the worst affected stretches in the city during the same period in 2020.
GMDA officials told preventing the floods This, they built three dam checks along the river in Aravalis near the Golf Road for the past year, which caused rain water to be transferred to the forest area before being able to reach a stretch.
Some native species are also planted around these children so that the land is not loose and the embankment does not give way.
On August 19 last year, nearly 120mm rainfall had left several parts of the city which was inundated, including the golf path.
Underpass on DLF-1 is completely submerged as a result.
It has taken DLF, which manages underpass, two days to finally pump all water and reopen for traffic.
Puddles of Golf Road have completely surprised the government’s body, because stretches have not appeared anywhere in the critical points list they have prepared.
DLF blames “inadequate drainage infrastructure”.