Week after heavy rains, BMC and Railway identify spots that led to flash flooding

Between 8.30 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. connected September 25, Mumbai recorded implicit 100 mm of rain, which yet led to stoppage of railway question from the tracks.

All these locations are successful adjacent proximity to the railway tracks and see a web of tempest h2o drains (SWD) and micro tunnels for travel of water.

According to civic officials, the locations that person been identified astatine cardinal enactment see the railway gait astatine Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), and tempest h2o drains identified astatine Bhandup station, Vidyavihar stations and connecting areas betwixt Sion and Matunga and Vikhroli and Kanjurmarg. Meanwhile, astatine the harbour line, the locations identified see railway tracks betwixt Sewri and Wadala and Kurla and Mankhurd.

The officials said the superior origin of waterlogging successful these spots was due to the fact that of the drainage web getting clogged.

Abhijit Bangar, further municipal commissioner (projects) said connected Monday that the BMC and Railways person jointly taken a telephone to augment the existing drainage lines to guarantee creaseless travel of water.

“The existing drainage networks that tally from beneath the tracks request to beryllium widened. Since the diameter of the drains are not precise wide, a choke-point was created pursuing dense rains that yet led to the tracks getting submerged underneath the water,” Bangar said connected Monday.

He said galore of these drainage widening projects that necessitate augmentation person already been taken up for implementation. However, successful immoderate cases the enactment couldn’t statesman considering determination are issues of relocating task affected parties (PAP).

In the Harbour Line, slum areas person encroached into the railway tracks, owed to which each the radical surviving determination dump their regular discarded successful the drainages which had yet choked the h2o travel starring to the railway tracks getting inundated,” Bangar said.

On Monday, a gathering was carried retired betwixt railway officials and BMC administration. Bangar said that pursuing the meeting, a determination was taken connected covering the existing drainage networks with protective nets to forestall discarded disposal connected them.

“We person reached a statement connected starting the pending works astatine the earliest and the enactment connected augmentation of the drainage web needs to beryllium started astatine the earliest. Both the agencies volition proceed to guarantee these works are completed earlier monsoon,” Bangar said.