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Rain lashes city, 150 houses inundated

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, SEPT. 28. The heavy rain on Tuesday evening for nearly four hours left the city roads inundated once again exposing the infrastructural inadequacies.

The extreme ends of the roads in most places turned out to be traps for vehicles, which got stuck in the slush because of the telephone cable trenches that were not properly covered.

A bus got stuck in a roadside trench at Lakshmi Mills Junction. The police, by effectively deploying adequate traffic police personnel on the roads, managed to minimise traffic snarls at a number of places like the North Coimbatore flyover and Avanashi Road flyover. Underpasses and pass ways beneath the flyovers continue to remain flooded.

Traffic diversion

While heavy vehicles managed to get past waterlogged areas, auto-rickshaws, two-wheelers and small cars got stuck. The Goods Shed Road remained totally flooded forcing a traffic diversion in the busy Bazaar area. The rain led to the collapse of a school compound wall on Goods Shed Road. The city witnessed disruption in power supply as a result of the torrential rains.Vadavalli area remained worst hit and the residents had to remain in darkness till midnight. The TNEB could restore supply only in a phased manner.

Personnel from the Fire and Rescue Services Department from Peelamedu attended a rescue call at Otterpalayam on the Pattanam Road in Palladam taluk following inundation of nearly 150 houses.

Though no casualty was reported till evening, the fire tenders, revenue and police administration remained in a state of readiness.

Copious inflow

The downpour led to copious inflow into a number of reservoirs on Monday. The rain remained very moderate on Monday and the rainfall level in mm at 08.30 a.m. is as follows; Agricultural 3.5, Airport 7.2, Annur 16, Avanashi 5, Mettuppalayam 30, Tirupur 7.5, Palladam 5.3, Sulur 3, Udumalpet 4.4, Sholayar 9, Parambikulam 7, Thoonakadavu 7, Peruvaripallam 7, Thirumurthy 3.5, Amaravathy 4.8, Upper Nirar 20.2, Lower Nirar 14.0, Kadamparai 21.3, Valparai 10.4, Makkinampatti 6.6, Manakkadau 2.6, Sircarpathy 1.8, Siruvani catchments 15 and Siruvani foothills 18.

The Siruvani reservoir with a full reservoir level of 67.65 ft had storage of 65.67 ft (i.e. 877.90 mt as against the 878.5 mt).

Rain in PAP catchments

The downpour in PAP catchments in Western Ghats resulted in copious inflow into the reservoirs. Storage in feet and capacity is given in brackets: Sholayar recorded 149.20 ft storage (160 ft) the inflow remained at 1008 cusecs while the discharge remained at 807 cusecs. Parambikulam 56.19 (72) inflow was at 909 cusecs and discharge 550 cusecs, Aliyar 97.90 (120) inflow stood at 487 cusecs while discharge stood at 711 cusecs, Tirumurthy had 38.51 ft (60) while inflow stood at 776 cusecs and discharge stood at 1,264 cusecs (from where water release has begun for irrigation under the PAP) and Amaravathy had 61.20 ft (90) while inflow stood at 2097 cusecs discharge remained at just six cusecs.

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