Rain Towers – An Integrated Rainwater Harvesting & Excess Flood Control Structure for Chennai Rivers
| International Journal of Civil Engineering |
| © 2017 by SSRG - IJCE Journal |
| Volume 4 Issue 2 |
| Year of Publication : 2017 |
| Authors : Saravanan J, Sridhar M |
10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V4I2P105
How to Cite?
Saravanan J, Sridhar M, "Rain Towers – An Integrated Rainwater Harvesting & Excess Flood Control Structure for Chennai Rivers," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 29-32, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V4I2P105
Abstract:
During recent (2015) North-East Monsoon, Chennai, capital of TamilNadu, India had received totally 119.73cm of rainfall till November 30; midnight (2015) has broken the 1918 record of 108.8cm which had stood as the highest record. It has also broken the record of last ten years when the capital city received 421 mm of rain in 2005. Due to such heavy rainfall, Chennai had suffered much both economically and socially. Keeping the Climate Change issue aside, it is sensitive alarming time for Chennai as one of the Metropolitan Cities of India, to derive and design the solutions for Urban Flood Management especially for Cooum and Adyar rivers. In this paper, we have presented and discussed a new conceptual idea for a structure that would be useful for rainwater harvesting and for channeling the excess river flood simultaneously. Our Rain Tower design consists of various components and network of conduits as well.
Keywords:
Rain Tower, Chennai Floods, Flood control, Rainwater Harvesting, Urban Flood Management, Adyar and Cooum River.
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