NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, DECEMBER 3
Majority of the water bodies serving main source for the drinking water supply to Chennai and in the neighbouring Kanchipuram, Chengalpattu and Tiruvallore districts are filling up fast because of the rain that occurred for the past few days. The rains also helped increasing the ground water table marginally.
Official sources said that many lakes in the neighbouring newly carved out Chengalpattu and Kanchipuram district have reached their fully capacity, while some of them are overflowing. Over 500 water bodies out of the 924 water bodies filled up and it is expected that the remaining water bodies will fill up on Wednesday. The storage of the water bodies would be sufficient for irrigation, the officials said.
Due to heavy downpour over the weekend has also led to a rise in ground water table by 1metre to 2 metres across Chennai during November. According to Metrowater, areas such as Adyar, Sholinganallur and Alandur have witnessed a better rise in water level compared to other areas.
Moderate rains to continue in State: met centre
The Chennai IMD centre has forecast light to moderate showers to continue till Thursday. The easterly trough over southwest Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka coast-south Tamil Nadu coast persists.
Balachandran, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, Chennai said the rainfall intensity would largely reduce and heavy rains may occur in one or two places in coastal areas on Thursday. The State has received a rainfall of 42 cm, which is excess by 11% for the season.
Chennai may experience light showers in some areas till Thursday. The city has recorded 103 cm of rainfall against its average of 140 cm this year since January 1, the official said.
Meanwhile, reports reaching here said that the rain continues in several parts of the state on Tuesday.
