Residents of a few neighbourhoods on Kaliamman Koil Street believe the completion of a road-widening project would bring the much-needed relief
Sai Baba Colony and Tarachand Nagar in Virugambakkam suffered inundation as a result of downpours in the first week of January. While some residents found their houses engulfed by water stagnating within the compound walls, there were others who had a bigger problem to deal with: water entering their rooms, sometimes mixed with overflowing sewage.
Inundation of this kind is a recurrent issue for residents, who believe that the solution to this problem lies in the construction of stormwater drains (SWDs) in Kaliamman Koil Street. For that to materialise, the street has to be widened first.
The two colonies are low-lying, points out Shakthivel Arumugam, secretary, Sai Baba Colony Residents Welfare Association and Jayanthi Bhatt, secretary, Tarachand Nagar Civic Association.
Hence, water from surrounding neighbourhoods flow into Sai Baba…