The Adyar river, which intersects the city in a serpentine path before terminating at Adyar estuary in the Bay of Bengal, had a peak flow capacity of about 50,000 cubic feet per second (cusec) nearly 50 years ago. But due to encroachment and dumping of waste by different local bodies, dumping of debris by local civil contractors, the capacity has been reduced to 10,000 cusec. During this monsoon, the river was carrying about 60,000 cusec water. Now one can imagine the intensity of damage it caused to its surrounding areas.
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