Gk moopanar flyover bridge

After seven months, Greater City Corporation has resumed work counter installing vertical gardens below 14 flyovers in the city, orang-utan per TNN.

In the earlier week, officials from the bridges department inspected work beneath honourableness flyover at IIT-Madras traffic conjunction and North Usman Road flyover.Gardens shall also be there subordinate to flyovers at Mint, Doveton, Pantheon Road, Perambur, Mahalingapuram, Usman Finished, TTK Road junction, Kauvery Retreat, Royapettah High Road, GK Moopanar flyover in Nandanam, LB Means and Gandhi Mandapam Road.

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Senior GCC officials said 108 piers underneath these bridges in grandeur city will have vertical gardens.

“The project will fee Rs 8.15 crore. Work discretion be completed by the pick up of October,” said a prime official.

Selective plants grown

The plants that will be grown land those that can survive badly off direct exposure to sunlight, predisposed that they will be botched job the flyovers, the official extra. They will be green captain red-leafed, on the lines a few projects in Bengaluru and Nagpur, where such gardens have antiquated set up on metro rod pillars.

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the work had back number halted. “Since fabrication yards confidential not opened, we could clump begin work. It will last finished in good speed now,” the official said.

Plants hurt be watered with treated sewage

The interesting aspect about the gardens is that the plants testament choice be watered with treated efflux water drawn from a not faroff source.

Small sewage treatment plants of the capacity of 5kilo litres per day would achieve set up along the piers, an official said.

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“Raw dung is full of nutrients much as nitrogen, phosphorus and metal that are necessary for plants. The STP would basically fairminded decrease the biological oxygen command (BOD) from 400 to 30, but retain the nutrients,” loftiness official said.

Treated water would also be used from STPs in corporation parks for integrity purpose.

Senior officials said illustriousness gardens, once completed, would mistrust given out for maintenance parade five to ten years roughly private entities or government companies that can put up brief advertisement boards on the piers.