Heavy rainfall fills check dams across Cooum, helps clean polluted stretch

A minimum of 130 million cubic feet of water is being stored in five check dams

Abundant rainfall this month has brought heavy flow in Cooum river and also filled check dams across its unpolluted portion. Considerable flow in the river has also helped flush out stagnant sewage in the urban stretches.

Officials of the Water Resources Department (WRD) said surplus water from Kosasthalaiyar river was transferred to the Cooum through a link canal running from the Poondi reservoir. This generated a flow in the river, most of whose stretches were otherwise dry till early this month. Floodwater from the Kesavaram anicut and Cooum tank augmented the flow.