Chennai will get India’s first real-time flood forecast system

An actual-time flood forecast and spatial choice help system (RTFF & SDSS) has turn into utterly operational for Chennai.

Billed as a complete city flood administration system and the primary of its form within the nation, the Chennai RTFF & SDSS, estimated to price about ₹107.2 crore, covers lakes, rivers, storm water drainage. system and the ocean. It envisages not solely the supply of dependable forecasts of water stage in rivers and tanks but in addition that of street-level inundation forecasts for weak areas of the town equivalent to Pulianthope, Nungambakkam, Mambalam, Saidapet, Velachery, Meenambakkam and Mudichur.

Though its focus space is Chennai metropolis, the system covers an space of ​​roughly 4,974 sq km, encompassing Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu and Ranipet districts. The Adyar, Cooum, Kosasthalaiyar and Kovalam river sub-basins are being noticed beneath the system.

“For the final couple of years, we (on the State Catastrophe Administration Authority) had calibrated forecast and arrived at norms for the forecast. Until now, we didn’t think about no matter knowledge generated for choice making. Because the onset of the present Northeast monsoon, we have now began sharing the forecast with departments involved for choice making,” say senior officers. They added the brand new system has been totally built-in with TNSMART, a web-based choice help system for all sorts of catastrophe. The beneficiary-agencies of the State authorities are the Water Assets Division (WRD), the Commissionerate for Income Administration (CRA), the Better Chennai Company (GCC) and the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration (CMA).

Selectively, findings of the RTFF & SDSS can be disseminated by way of TN-Alert, a cellular software, among the many public, one of many officers observes. Executed with the World Financial institution’s monetary help, the Chennai RTFF & SDSS challenge has seen the involvement of the Tamil Nadu City Infrastructure Monetary Providers (TNUIFSL), which handles the challenge fund, by way of the challenge consultants SECON-JBA, beneath the technical oversight of Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT)-Madras. An inter-departmental staff, comprising officers of the WRD and the GCC has been proposed to cope with the system, beneath the general supervision of the CRA.