The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board or Metrowater has started clearing encroachments on British-era conduit lines, which carry water from the Red Hills reservoir to Kilpauk Water Treatment Plant. The water agency has identified nearly 1,300 encroachments from Rajamangalam to Kilpauk water works. It carried out an analysis using differential global positioning system (DGPS) and drone survey in the stretch to identify the changes in land use and the extent of encroachments of the boundary. The three conduit lines, the oldest of which was built with brick masonry…
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