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A 2015 CAG report revealed that a diversion channel from the Buckingham canal near Okkiyum Maduvu to the sea (a drain project under the JNNURM scheme) could have saved South Chennai from flooding; the government, however, dropped the ₹1 billion scheme, which, had it been completed, would have drained floodwater from southern neighbourhood at ...
2005 November Chennai stampede; 2014 Chennai building collapse; 2015 South India floods; B. Brihadeeswarar temple fire; C. COVID-19 pandemic in Tamil Nadu; D.
1967 Brazil flood, mainly Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, flood and landslide Brazil: 1967 431 St. Francis Dam failure United States 1928 431 2015 Tamil Nadu floods Chennai, Cuddalore and Andhra Pradesh named 2015 South Indian floods: India: 2015 429 2002 Nepal flood, mainly occurred at Makwanpur, monssnal rain, flood, landslide Nepal: 2002 425
July 2015 Gujarat flood: Heavy rain in July 2015 resulted in widespread flood in north Gujarat resulting in more than 70 deaths. [12] 2015 South Indian floods: Heavy rain in Nov-Dec 2015 resulted in flooding of Adyar, Cooum rivers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu resulting in financial loss and human lives. [13]
Efforts were being made by the AIADMK government to close sewage inlets, free the flood banks from encroachments, and replant native varieties of trees after cordoning of the river, to prevent further illegal occupation since the Chennai Floods of 2015 and have been reasonably successful.
Rescuers used boats to reach people stranded in their homes amid widespread flooding in the India's Chennai on Wednesday after cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern coast, bringing in heavy ...
Heavy rains from Hurricane Joaquin caused Gills Creek to overflow its banks on Oct. 4, 2015.
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health.