Chennai: A few days ago in several areas in Mandaveli and Ashok Nagar, a local engineer knocked on the door of residents who promised to resolve the problem of flooding by raising the level of the road they lived in.
Engineers say there is no other solution that surrounds its location in an elevated position, which makes its locality resembling a plate holding all water runoffs.
Many of these streets have 30 year old waterways and don’t have it a little.
Senior company officials said suggestions made by engineers could not be executed because they opposed the road laying policy.
“We will not do this,” said a senior official.
But the problem continues.
Many of the main areas in the city – Ashok Nagar, Mandawan, Alwarpet and Pullianthope – down and out, because all the way around them have increased above these densely populated areas.
Rama Prabhakar, a resident of Srinivasan Stree in Mandaveli, explained that after the 2015 flood, GCC increased the height of Devanathan Street, the road route, and curved on it.
“Our Lane, the branch of Devanathan Street, automatically drops and becomes a sink for surface runoff.
Water enters my house,” he said.
Residents seek a permanent solution for this, said, road laying, because the policy must be given a second appearance.
Chitra Vaidyanathan, a financial professional from Seethammal Colony, said the company did a very good job by pumping water day and night, but it could not be a permanent solution.
“They can’t do this for every time it rains.
Around our area, the height of the road isn’t even.
While topography and sea level cannot be questioned, the road height cannot be raised in certain areas and decreases in several,” he said.
The incorrect road laying policy over the past decade has worsened the conditions of these areas, where there are several examples of storm water that radiates from the goth hole.
Instead of draining water, they finally became a inlet for floods as well as Aranganathan Subway in T Nagar and many residential areas where Got overflowed.
There is little choice left for civil authorities who cannot leave the surrounding area with a bad road, and at the same time it cannot help these areas get lower after each road topping.
Commissioner Chennai Corporation, Gagandeep Singh Bedi said, at no charge they could increase the height of the road.