Category: Surface Drainage
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Jal Jeevan Phase-II
The Wellington Lake named after the illustrious Duke of Waterloo and Assaye fame does not refer to the desultory piece of water near Black Bridge aka Waterloo Bridge aka Manekshaw Bride with which most are familiar, but rather to a waterbody, the history of which is intertwined with that of the Wellington Barracks. The Wellington…
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World Water Day 2025
To mark this year’s World Water Day, a preliminary assessment on cleaning a part of the stream which flows through Brooklands was made by Bharathiya Jain Sanghatana in association with ROBAC. Clean Coonoor will be offering technical support to the operations which will commence shortly. The theme of World Water Day 2025 according to the…
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Coonoor River Phase-5
A 11 day exercise aimed at a re-cleanup of the middle stream and a further widening of 500 meters of hitherto untouched ground was brought to a successful conclusion on 08 October, thanks to the funds made available from funds provided by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and INTACH Nilgiris Chapter. It is hoped that our efforts…
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Time to Reflect
As of tomorrow half a decade would have rolled by since Clean Coonoor and its volunteers, officials, and the general public, joined hands to take upon themselves the mammoth task of cleaning the middle stream of the Coonoor River. It would not be an overstatement to say that the whole venture would have been impossible,…
