As part of preparedness for facing the oncoming South West Monsoon, the Coimbatore Corporation has embarked on desilting and clearing the water ways across the city.
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Ahead of the South West Monsoon setting in, the Coimbatore Corporation has begun a drive to remove encroachments in water ways and channels and desilt them across the 100 wards.
Corporation Commissioner Katta Ravi Teja on Thursday inspected the works that are aimed at preventing flooding of roads and underpasses.
The Corporation has five zones, and the canals and channels passing through the zones are being desilted using earth movers. As part of the drive, in Veerakeralam in West Zone, the channel that feeds water to Krishnampathy tank is being deslited using excavators, a release from the Corporation said.
Works have been completed in 17.70 km of water ways in South Zone and works in the remaining 11.25 km are under progress. In West Zone, desilting of 5.50 km of the canal is over and works are under progress in the remaining 15.60 km. In East Zone, works are completed in respect of 34.27 km of water ways and desilting is under way in the remaining 6.19 km. In the Central Zone, desilting is completed in 3 km of water ways and works are in progress in the remaining 14.30 km.
In the North Zone, works are over in 13.62 km and works are being expedited in the remaining 13.60 km. Once the works are over, the water carrying capacity of these channels is expected to improve considerably and flooding of roads and low lying residential areas will be prevented.
Published – July 02, 2026 05:39 pm IST
