Three major Chennai reservoirs gets copious inflow
Posted on: 12/Sep/2013 2:13:27 PM
Thanks to the recent downpour of rains and because of this he three major reservoirs, which largely sustain drinking water supply to Chennai, received good rainfall. Chembarambakkam, with 9 cm of rainfall, received the highest, followed by Poondi with 7 cm. Within a few hours, the heavy rains added 103 million cubic feet (mcft) of water to the storage in the lakes, enough to supply the city for four or five days.
The Chembarambakkam lake received a maximum inflow of nearly 700 cubic feet of water per second from its catchment areas, including Newman. Though Poondi lake is receiving about 190 cusecs of Krishna water, much of the inflow was from the catchment areas. A major share of the inflow into the lake was diverted to the reservoir in Red Hills, which recorded the least rainfall of 2 cm.
