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CHENNAI: The total water storage in the city’s reservoirs has touched the highest level since 1954, according to Chennai Metrowater records. A Metrowater official said the storage of the three reservoirs — Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills — was 7,327 million cubic feet (mcft) on January 6, 2008. This is the highest cumulative storage recorded since 1954 as per the Metrowater records. Red Hills and Cholavaram reservoirs are storing water at their full capacity. The recent rain and sustained water release from Andhra Pradesh under the Telugu Ganga project for the past three years were cited as reasons for such a record. The city is now being supplied 645 million litres of water per day. Officials said the reservoir levels would be carefully watched and water discharged if fresh inflows contributed to increase in storage. On December 23, 2007, the storage in the three reservoirs touched 7,201 mcft, beating an earlier record of 7,137 mcft on December 31, 2005, when the city experienced flooding in several areas following heavy rain. Before that, the maximum storage was in January 1997, when the figure was 7,040 mcft. The official pointed out that the storage level of Chembarambakkam reservoir was not taken into account as it was used for city supply only from the year 2000. The combined storage level of the four reservoirs also touched the highest of 10,416 mcft on January 5, 2008 in the past seven years. Meanwhile, Public Works Department officials visited Chembarambakkam on Thursday as part of a feasibility study to improve the city reservoirs’ capacity. A PWD official said the plan to study the possibilities of increasing the storage would be submitted in two months. Technical factors, including strengthening of bund and arrangement for letting out surplus water, would be discussed. There is a possibility to improve the storage of lakes such as Nemam tank and Sriperumbudur tank serving as catchment points to city reservoirs, he said.
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