The New Indian Express ·
Gurugram floods citywide, not just at isolated spots: IIT-Gandhinagar study finds
CHANDIGARH: Every monsoon season, Gurugram witnesses waterlogging as a whole and does not flood at a few isolated junctions. Now, this has also been proved in a new technical study report by IIT-Gandhinagar and AIReSQ, which has been prepared for the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram, as it has mapped water moving across 117 sectors through 257 separate boundary crossings during a single design storm, highlighting how flooding in one area affects the entire city.
The technical report has identified 125 connected drainage areas feeding shared corridors across ward and sector lines, warning that fixing or diverting a drain at one point could shift the flooding burden elsewhere in the network rather than solving the problem.
While response centres on underground detention tanks, illustratively sized at 14,000 cubic metres for testing, has been proposed in this study, as these would capture floodwater and channel it through a four-stage treatment process comprising screening, settling, filtration and a water-quality check before release.