Telangana: Study on Hyderabad’s stormwater drainage network begins

HYDERABAD: Efforts to study the decades-old stormwater drainage network of Hyderabad have begun.
The Osmania University’s civil engineering department with the collaboration of a US-based Texas A&M University has taken up a comprehensive study jointly for a period of three years on the existing stormwater drainage system.
As part of study, the OU's civil engineering department has installed ultrasonic fow measuring meter has fixed on Balkapur nala on the premises of a 20 MLD capacity of ‘Sewerage Treatment Plant’ (STP), at Khairatabad (Necklace Road), to measure the depth of drainage flows. A control room is also set up at the same premises and to record, the flows and the data will transfer to the smartphone network, automatically.
Head of the department, civil engineering, Osmania University, M Gopal Naik, a key person behind the study, told TOI, “the data of flows of stormwater drainage and rainfall up to three years will be recorded and recommended certain measures, keeping in the projection of next 50 years, to get rid of Hyderabad from flash floods.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) have provided data on the stormwater drainage system, while Telangana State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (TRAC) helped mapping in identifying the areas and stormwater drainage network through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Global Positioning System (GPS), for the study, said Naik.