In another 2 days of time, water from Veeranam lake might reach Chennai
Posted on: 07/Aug/2018 9:41:37 AM
In Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu is located Veeranam Lake. This lake is one of the water reservoirs that supplies water to the Chennai city. This Veeranam Lake is now making news. The superb piece of information is this lake is brimming to attain full capacity and in another 2 days of time water from this lake would be released. It is known that Kilpauk water treatment plant does superbly in treatment of water. Now water from this Veeranam Lake would reach Kilpauk water treatment plant. Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board or CMWSSB has increased the cleaning works in the Kilpauk water treatment plant.
Once water from Veeranam Lake reaches Chennai, then tapping water from Chembarambakkam and Red Hills would be reduced. This was confirmed by officials. Mettur based Stanley reservoir is filled with Cauvery water is known. This has made the officials belonging to CMWSSB hopeful of getting water from Veeranam Lake. Flushing out of mucky water has been going on so that fresh water could be received.
PWD engineer, Mr. Arunagiri, expressed his views and spoke about how information was got from CMWSSB regarding the cleaning process and how communication to tap water from Veeranam Lake was expected. He also explained about the lake filled with Cauvery water and how the officials could pump water for drinking to Chennai anytime. An official expressed his thoughts and spoke about CMWSSB getting ready to receive water. The official threw light on how in another two days the process of flushing dirty water would be completed and after which the water would be released from the Veeranam Lake. To tackle the water crisis in Chennai city about 180 MLD of water would be transported. There were also few views shared by other official and he said the tapping of water from Chennai lakes would be reduced.
He later highlighted that the total storage of four lakes was 1533 million cubic feet. This would be sufficient for one and half months to meet the demands of drinking water supply. At this point of time the release of water from the Veeranam Lake would be tremendous.
