Cleaning Up Of Canal Is Long Overdue

Residents of Labour Officers Quarters, P-Block, 6thAvenue, Anna Nagar have a long-pending request to have the Otteri Nullah desilted and cleaned up. The canal carrying water is clogged with garbage and weeds. Otteri Nullah is getting improved and strengthened under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Labour Officers Quarters residents now heave a sigh of relief as Public Works Department has started work to clean up the Otteri Nullah along 6th Avenue stretch. PWD officials stated that as a safety measure a high raised flood protection wall will be constructed along the banks of the Otteri Nullah. 

 The Otteri Nullah is an east-west waterway which runs through north Chennai, starting at the village of Mullam proceeding through Purasawalkam and then passing through Buckingham and Carnatic Mills before meeting the Buckingham Canal at Basin Bridge. 

The waterway is around 12 km in length with a catchment area of 38.40 square kilometers. It is the major outlet for rainwater in North Chennai. Along with the other major waterways of Chennai, the water remains heavily polluted in spite of many government efforts to clean it up over the years.