With less than 4 months left for monsoon, BMC to tackle 55 flooding spots in Mumbai this year

BMC identifies chronic flooding spots successful Mumbai by assessing the erstwhile year’s rainfall pattern, pursuing which remedial measures are implemented. According to the Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP), 35 per cent of Mumbai’s colonisation resides successful flooding spots.

As galore arsenic 453 flooding spots person been identified successful Mumbai, retired of which 369 person already been handled, BMC information shows. Civic assemblage officials said the 55 flooding spots volition beryllium tackled by them successful the adjacent year, and 18 different spots volition beryllium handled successful coordination with the Indian Railways and different agencies similar the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) among others. The remaining 11 spots are successful the readying stage, they added.

Civic officials added galore of these areas identified this twelvemonth are adjoining railway tracks and low-lying areas connected the banks of the Mithi River and different h2o bodies similar Walbhat and Dahisar.

“Owing to dense rainfall past year, the railway question was affected a fewer times arsenic the tracks went underwater. Our cardinal absorption for this twelvemonth has been mitigation of these spots to guarantee railway question is not affected,” an authoritative said.

“Even though the fig of flooding spots has reduced, galore of these spots identified this twelvemonth are new. Activities similar amerciable encroachment often pb to chocking of the h2o bodies that pb to overflowing of the h2o causing h2o logging during the monsoon,” said the official.

According to BMC officials, immoderate of the mitigation measures see augmentation of the existing drainage web for improved h2o travel and sealing openings that pb to dense inflow of seawater during the rains. Besides this, BMC is besides installing portable dewatering pumps to transmission retired h2o during dense rainfall.

The fig of flooding spots to beryllium tackled this twelvemonth is less than what it was successful 2024. Last year, BMC identified 100 caller flooding spots of which 72 spots were tackled initially. The civic assemblage besides handled 16 different spots successful coordination with the Railways, MMRDA, and different agencies.