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Illegal sewer connections severed

Chennai: The Chennai Corporation and Metrowater have detected 1,800 cases of homes and other buildings letting out sewage into stormwater drains across the city.

Mayor M. Subramanian told reporters here on Monday that action was being taken to block these illegal sewage outlets. About 1,100 such illegal connections have been severed as on date. The Mayor said that stormwater drains and the canals maintained by the civic body were desilted at a cost of Rs.4.5 crore and the Public Works Department had desilted waterways at a cost of Rs.5 crore.

However, many residents of inundated residential areas said that the canals and waterways had flooded because they were choked with garbage or encroached upon.

The Corporation had intensified garbage clearance operations in localities that were inundated for the past four days. The Mayor inspected removal of garbage, spraying of disinfectant and fogging for mosquito control in Virugambakkam, one of the badly-affected areas.

He said that the civic body would tie up with private hospitals to conduct medical camps for the public in 30 locations across the city on December 7. The camps would be organised in association with Apollo Hospital, Sri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital and Billroth Hospital. About 25 doctors would be present at each of the locations between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. These camps would be in addition to the regular medical camps being conducted this week at various rain-affected localities.

Mr. Subramanian said that the Corporation would take up patch work and repairs on roads damaged by the floods. However, re-laying of roads would have to wait till January when the monsoon is over, he said. The civic body had formed five teams, each headed by a Superintending Engineer, to monitor road repair.

He also said that service roads below flyovers would be laid with concrete to make the stretches more durable.

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