The document provides an executive summary of a project to restore six lakes within the Chennai Metropolitan Area. The project aims to restore and protect the lakes through interventions in their basins and catchment areas to recharge and retain water in the lakes. Surveys and investigations were conducted on the six lakes to assess their current conditions, water quality, biodiversity, and gather input from local stakeholders. Restoration strategies were developed based on the surveys and analyses, with the goals of restoring hydrological connectivity between the lakes, addressing issues like encroachment and drainage/infrastructure problems, and implementing programs for preservation, conservation and urban design interventions.
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Lesotho - Land & Water management for good IWRMShammy Puri
Lesotho needs to urgently put in place integrated catchment management. If not all soil, all agriculture and all cattle will be seriously affected in less than 10 years. What to do? In this project I have suggested a 'way ahead' to the water Sector Coordinating Committee. The message is in the power point.
Administrative Tools for Protecting River Flow Regimes - Robert Wigington, Th...rshimoda2014
Senior Water Policy Counsel, Colorado River Program, The Nature Conservancy
This presentation followed the panel titled: Great Rivers, Got Water, which discussed state law, federal law and administrative mechanisms for legally protecting river flow regimes.
This presents three administrative mechanisms that are being applied in the Upper Colorado River Basin: 1) programmatic biological opinions on water development and operations, 2) alternatives to determinations of wild & scenic suitability and to consequent wild & and scenic designation, and 3) interstate agreements for shepherding forgone water use to forestall compact curtailment.
2011ppt dev hydrologydecisionsupporttool_finalbcogcommission
Presentation by Allan Chapman on Development of a Hydrology Decision Support Tool on April 6, 2011 at the Unconventional Gas Technical Forum in Victoria, British Columbia
Practice from China: GEF Hai Basin Integrated Water and Environment Managemen...Iwl Pcu
Liping Jiang, World Bank Office China
Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia (during the host region project results and expectations session).
Topics:
1. Challenges in Hai Basin and Bohai Sea
2. Project Approach to Face the Challenges
3. Major Project Results or Outcomes
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Presentation made at Workshop held to felicitate Prof Ramaswamy Iyer, New Delhi 25- 27th November 2013, IIC - IHC New Delhi. Gives an overview of the status, potential and implementation challenges of E flows in Indian context
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The flows of India’s rivers are increasingly being modified by dams and weirs and abstractions for agriculture and urban use. These interventions have caused significant alteration of flow regimes mainly by reducing total flow and affecting its variability and seasonality. An Environmental Flow (EF) is the water regime provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and their benefits. Environmental Flows describe the quantity, quality and timing of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well-being that depend on these ecosystems. This presentation looks at how the EF approach has been tested in India and describes a project to apply EF methodology to the upper Ganga.
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Abstract Advancements in study and assessment of changing land use patterns using modern techniques like use of satellite data is inevitable today owing to high accuracy and ease of its accessibility to researchers. In this study, satellite images of over last ten years have been precisely used to analyze the changes in natural water flow and geographic characteristics of world famous Dal Lake in state of Jammu & Kashmir arising due uncontrolled human expansion and destruction of natural lake topography. The lake currently in advanced stages of eutrophication has been rapidly shrinking in its area at an alarming rate over last five decades. Major contributors to such changes are the direct or indirect discharge of untreated wastes from Srinagar city into water body through numerous sewer lines and uncontrolled land filling by local inhabitants in interiors of lake to meet their growing needs of urbanization and need for more agricultural land. Nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen derived from growth of vegetation within the lake and sewage have drastically altered water quality parameters and dramatically disrupted the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) of lake from years; making the water obtained from lake unfit for any kind of consumption or aquatic life. Uncontrolled pollution and wide encroachments laden with exponential increase of sewage discharges have led to severe changes in land use pattern in interiors of the lake which is the main source of destruction of natural physiognomies of lake and gradual choking up of its water sources. All this has compounded into complete breakdown of drainage mechanism of the Lake with a threat of floods in Lake Catchment unavoidable in coming time. Keywords: Sewage, Eutrophication, Catchment, Topography, Ecology
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Executive Summary
1. Summary for Restoration and Protection of Six lakes
within Chennai Metropolitan Area
Executive Summary
2. The project is titled as “Preparation of Detailed Project Report for Restoration and
Protection of six lakes within the Chennai Metropolitan Area”. Government of Tamil Nadu
(GoTN), through the Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust (CRRT) and Tamil Nadu Urban
Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL), has taken the initiative for the restoration
and protection of Lakes in CMA. The proposed project is aimed for the restoration and
protection of the six lakes in CMA by undertaking interventions in the basin and catchment area
for water recharging and retaining in the lake.
The study area of 6 Lakes are located within the Chennai Metropolitan Area. The Lakes
chosen for the restoration are:
Lakes in South Chennai
1) Velachery Lake
2) Nanmangalam Lake
3) Kovilambakkam Eri
4) Nesavalar Nagar Lake
Lakes in North Chennai
5) Kadapakkam Panchayat Lake in Manali Zone
6) Kolathur Lake
3. For executing the
project a
methodology was
framed as shown in
the figure.
Survey and
Investigations were
carried out including
Topographical and
bathymetric survey to
study the present
condition Inlet and
Outlet structures,
Point sources of
pollution, Solid waste
dumping sites,
present usage, water
quality, Biodiversity
and focus groups.
Hydraulic particulars
were collected from
the PWD, WRD.
The hydrological analysis include water balance studies, water holding capacity of lakes,
Hydrological modelling, lake catchment, inlets and outlets, drainage networks, rainfall &
dependability analysis, Runoff Estimation, connectivity and carrying capacity of the
channels.
One of the primary purposes of the project is to restore the connectivity between the lakes
as shown in figure
The existing water
samples collected were tested
and analyzed for identification
of 35 different parameters
conforming to CPCB
guidelines at several locations
for all six lakes. Sediments
samples were collected at
three locations including inlet,
outlet and water spread area.
Habit composition of floral
species of the lake is
dominated by herbs, followed
by shrub, trees and climbers,
grasses and aquatic.
4. Focus group discussion (FGD) was carried out initially to identify key issues and
suggestions for restoration and protection from the locals. Stakeholders meetings were
conducted at local and official levels. The key issues and suggestions were put forth as
per below by the stakeholders were considered in preparing the restoration plan.
Alteration and disturbance in drainage pattern and the entire hydrology
Blocked/ruined inlets and outlets
Physical encroachments on bunds
Patronage from surrounding community
No adequate fencing.
Inadequate Infrastructure for developmental potential
Shrinkage in Lake submergence due to encroachments
Based on survey and analysis three strategy for restoration was prepared.
Preservation & Restoration Programme of Water Bodies
Conservation of Water Bodies
Urban Design Intervention Programme with a mix of preservation and conservation
aspects.