adyar river

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Chennai's electorate faces critical issues of flooding, pollution, waste management, and river restoration as elections approach. While both AIADMK and DMK have initiated projects, significant challenges like incomplete works, legacy pollution, and persistent encroachments remain, impacting the city's liveability and quality of life.

Chennai's electoral battleground is set, with DMK leaders M K Stalin and Udhayanidhi Stalin contesting key seats. The party relies on its governance and a blend of experienced and new candidates. TVK's presence could impact close contests, while AIADMK veterans face the challenge of reconnecting with younger voters.

The adyar river, which was recently cleared off garbage and sewage by the floods, is now getting contaminated again, this time by sewage discharged into it by metrowater pipelines.

The state PWD is looking at various options to save excess water from the Chembarambakkam reservoir and plans to take measures to reduce inundation in residential areas along the adyar river course after the monsoon.

Widening and desilting of adyar river might face delays as the Central expert panel authorised to approve the project has deferred it.

After a hiatus, the government has restarted the eviction drive along adyar river, evicting 60 families from Jothiammal Nagar on Thursday, followed by 20 more from Thideer Nagar and Karunanidhi Nagar on Friday.

The public works department on Tuesday stopped desilting the adyar river mouth, following objections from social activists, environmentalists and members of the Student Sea Turtle Conservation Network.

Two boys who were swimming in the swollen adyar river at Choolaipallam in Chennai were washed away on Thursday.

A culvert across the adyar river near Tiruneermalai breached on Wednesday morning following heavy rain, cutting off access from Tiruneermalai, Pallavaram and surrounding areas to the industrial estate in Tirumudivakkam.

Residents of Mudichur, Varadharajapuram, Perungalathur and Pazhanthandalam need no longer worry about floods during the monsoon as PWD authorities have begun widening the adyar river at Tiruneermalai.

Residents of Mudichur, Varadharajapuram, Perungalathur and Pazhanthandalam need no longer worry about floods during the monsoon as PWD authorities have begun widening the adyar river at Tiruneermalai.A senior PWD official said the current width of the Adyar is only 42m at this location.

The public works department has started work to erect a retaining wall at the Jaffarkhanpet bridge over adyar river near Kasi Theatre.

Sudden contruction activity on the adyar river's southern bund has raised concerns among environmental activists as they fear it is a road along the ecologically sensitive zone.

Imposing of penalties, seizing vehicles and registering cases have failed to deter private companies from dumping construction debris in the adyar river.

The adyar river bed under Anakaputhur bridge is being used as a garbage dump. Residents allege that the garbage is from IT firms on Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR).

The next round of evacuation of squatters from the adyar river banks has begun with the Greater Chennai Corporation and water resources department starting the enumeration work.

An unidentified body of a man was found floating in adyar river near Thiru Vi Ka Nagar bridge on Tuesday.

Foul-smelling foam welcomed fishermen and visitors at the adyar river mouth on Thursday morning. It was spread over a half-a-kilometer.

The civic body would spend Rs 71.5 crore to develop parks on the banks of the river, a release from Corporation said.

Over the last couple of weeks, motorists riding on the Thiru-Vi-Ka bridge at Adyar have been noticing an anomaly. On the side of the road leading to Mandaveli, streetlights installed by Greater Chennai Corporation are facing the adyar river.

The Greater Chennai Corporation and Metrowater are trying to restore the Mambalam canal, one of the longest drains in the city which used to carry excess of rainwater into the adyar river.