The structure was set up to resolve the twin objective of recharging the aquifer and also solving a 20-year problem of water stagnation.


The Coimbatore Corporation has put up a rain water harvesting structure measuring around 200 sq.ft. at Chinthamani Nagar of Ward 62, with the twin objective of recharging the aquifer and also solving a 20-year problem of water stagnation.

The civic body has used a reserved site, north of NSR Road, to put up the structure 15 ft below the road level. "The structure runs another 15 ft deep. Siruthuli (a public initiative for water resources conservation) has sunk a 280-ft deep bore well," Mayor R. Venkatachalam said on Monday.

Ward councillor R. Gayathri said: "Once operational, the new structure will solve the problem of stagnation of rain water at this spot. A faulty gradient from the main road and another from a street led to rain water flowing towards the site and stagnating in front of a few houses," she explained.

The councillor said people residing in a house near the reserved site used to move out of the place during heavy rain as water entered the compound.

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