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After making loud claims about being rain-ready the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said that it will be helpless in preventing 55 spots in the city from flooding. The civic administration has warned citizens of these chronic flooding spots, Kurla and Juhu being two of them.
A number of other locations have been idenitified in Goregaon, Juhu, Mumbai Central, Parel, Bhandup, Ghatkopar, Borivli, Kandivli and Mulund that might be vulnerable as they are low-lowing regions.
"These are traditionally low-lying areas which see flooding every monsoon. There is usually localised flooding that happens mostly because of the natural topography," said chief engineer, storm water drains, VL Joshi. He added that installing pumps in these areas will bring the much-needed respite. "These pumps are designed in such a way that they will pump the extra water immediately. This will surely help the citizens during monsoon," said Joshi.
Although the civic administration was banking on the Rs 16,000 crore BRIMSTOWAD project it will not be able to relieve these 55 spots. "The BRIMSTOWAD project will be completed by 2011. Wherever the components of the project have been completed the areas have got relief," said Additional Municipal Commissioner, R A Rajeev.
Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak discussed the other pre-monsoon measures taken up by the BMC on Friday. According to the figures presented by the BMC almost 93.19% of the total nullahs have been desilted and the remaining ones are expected to be cleared by June 2.
The civic administration said that the rain gauges installed at 34 different locations will help in assessing the rainfall situation. "Though the Met department keeps us updated on the rain situation, it only gives updates from Colaba and Santacruz. Hence we thought of installing rain gauges at other main locations to get a more localised update," said additional municipal commissioner, Kishore Gajbhiye. These locations include Borivli, Marol, Bandra-Kurla Complex, IIT-Powai, Dadar, Kurla and the civic body head quarters.
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