Chennai: The water resources department said it would remove hyacinths from Retteri Lake and drain the polluted water from it by the end of the northe.
Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by.
Meanwhile, BBMP Lakes Department executive engineer Bhooprada has said that she has already instructed the contractor to close the gap between the manhole and the lake bund. “We have decided to postpone desilting of the wetland till summer. We waited till September to commence the desilting of the wetland. We expected to commence the desilting this month but there is no respite from rain. It is better to take up desilting of the wetland in summer,’’ said the BBMP executive engineer.