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Chapter 4.1.9 Ground Water Resources Chennai District CHAPTER 4.1.9 GROUND WATER RESOURCES CHENNAI DISTRICT 1 INDEX CHAPTER PAGE NO. INTRODUCTION 3 CHENNAI DISTRICT – ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP 3 1. HYDROGEOLOGY 3-7 2. GROUND WATER REGIME MONITORING 8-15 3. DYNAMIC GROUND WATER RESOURCES 15-24 4. GROUND WATER QUALITY ISSUES 24-25 5. GROUND WATER ISSUES AND CHALLENGES 25-26 6. GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION 26-32 7. TOOLS AND METHODS 32-33 8. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 33-36 9. REFORMS UNDERTAKEN/ BEING UNDERTAKEN / PROPOSED IF ANY 10. ROAD MAPS OF ACTIVITIES/TASKS PROPOSED FOR BETTER GOVERNANCE WITH TIMELINES AND AGENCIES RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH ACTIVITY 2 GROUND WATER REPORT OF CHENNAI DISTRICT INRODUCTION : In Tamil Nadu, the surface water resources are fully utilized by various stake holders. The demand of water is increasing day by day. So, groundwater resources play a vital role for additional demand by farmers and Industries and domestic usage leads to rapid development of groundwater. About 63% of available groundwater resources are now being used. However, the development is not uniform all over the State, and in certain districts of Tamil Nadu, intensive groundwater development had led to declining water levels, increasing trend of Over Exploited and Critical Firkas, saline water intrusion, etc. ADMINISTRATIVE SET UP Chennai district is one of the 32 districts of Tamil Nadu. Chennai city originally called as Madras pattinam was located in Thondaimandalam province and it was the area lying between Pennar river of nellur and Ponnaiyar river of Cuddalore. The Thondaimandalam was ruled by Tondaman llam Thiraiyan during 2nd century AD.Subsequently this area was ruled by Cholas and then Pallavas. Pallavas ruled up to 9th century. Again Chola came to power and ruled up to 1264 AD and then Jadavarman Sundra Pandian ruled it for ½ century. Alladdin Khilji of Bahmini Kingdom then ruled this area and he was the pioneer of all the revenue works. Vijayanagar rule was established during 1631 AD.The Vijayanagar rulers appointed chieftain known as Nayaks who ruled over the different regions of the province almost independently. Damarla Venkatapathy Nayak, an influential chieftain under Vekata III, who was incharge of the area of present chennai city, gave the grant of a piece land lying between the river Cooum almost at the point it enters the sea and another river known as Egmore river to the English in 1639. On this piece of wasteland was founded the Fort St.George exactly for business considerations.Inhonourof Chennappa Nayak,father of Venkatapathy Nayak, who controlled the entire coastal country from Pulicat in the north to the portuguese settlement of Santhome, the settlement which had grown up around Fort St.George was named after Chennapatanam. 3 In the later part of the seveneenth century, Chennai steadily progressed during the period of Agency and under many Governors.During the regime of Governer Elihi Yale (1687-92), the most important event was the formation of the institution of a Mayor and Corporation for the city of Chennai. Thus the supremacy of the English in South India was established after the death of Tippu Sultan in 1799.The Present day territorial limits of the city existed in the shapeof scattered villages for centuries before the arrival of the British. In the process of growth, many villages got agglomerated into a single unit. The shape and extent of the city, which existedduring 1939-40, was reached even during the opening years of 19th century. Sir Thomas Munro became the Governor in 1820 and continued till 1827. He tried his best to improve literacy.He intitiated English education in Chennai and established a body called Board of Public Instructions to improve and direct public education. Important improvement made to Chennai city during the first half of the 19th century was the progress made in the stablishment of institutions for professional and technical education.Schoolof Industrial Art was Started in 1850, Civil Engineering Colleage in 1834 and Madras Medical College in 1835, etc.The Madras uniersity was started in September 1857.The Chennai High Court was created in June 1862.The Railway Company in Chennai was formed in July 1845.The Congress party came to life during the period 1881-90.The Indian National Congress held its session in 1887at chennai.Chennai Electric Supply Corporation was formed in 1906.Indian Bank was opened in 1907.In 1937,TheMinistry of Shri C.Rajagopalachari came into powerfor two years. The influence of the Governors on the administration consideraly diminished. The British departed on 15th August 1947 but Chennai remained as a standing monument of what the British has done to India. Chennai District is totally bifurcated into 20 Firkas. 4 1. Hydrogelogy (i) Major Geological formations: Geology and geomorphology: The major part of the district is covered by recent alluvium and only a small part is covered by crystalline rocks of Archaean age. The tertiary and Gondwanarocks encountered at depth. The adyar alluvium is 10 m to 20 m thickness and the occurrences of granular zones at depth vary from place to place. Cooum alluvium varies from 10 m to 28 m thickness and is more granular in Kilpauk – Perambur area. Beach ridges and sand dunes constitute good fresh water aquifer in Adyar – Besant nagar area. Fluvial marine and fluvio marine land forms are noted in the coastal area. Sand bars have scattered along the course of the River Adayar. Though the alluvium deposits are major Geological formation encountered, tertiary and Gondwana deposits are encountered on the bore holes drilled on the western fringes of the city by residents of Kulathur, Villivakkam, Anna nagar, etc. Due to more clayey nature of these formations the yield is reported to be poor. Charnockites are the crystalline formations encountered in and around Guindy and Velachery (south of Adyarriver) In Tharamani old lagoonal deposits are encountered and the presence of thick shell bed below clay proves this fact. Hydrogeology: Ground water occurs in all the geological formations of the city. But its occurrence and quantity depends upon the percentage of granular zone available in the aquifers. The aquifers of Chennai city are phreatic. The groundwater extraction in the city is only for domestic purpose. 5 a) Alluvium River Alluvium and coastal alluvium are mostly seen in the city. Generally in most part of the city the occurrence of groundwater is limited to thin granular zones in the alluvium. The thickness of alluvium is highly variable in space. The variation is about 10m to 28m. In most parts of the city, initially (upto 1970) groundwater extraction was done only by open well and the mode of extraction was hand bailing. Then the tradition of boreholes was introduced in the early 70s in the city. Then, it began the theory of groundwater mining. Instead of open wells of 8.00 m to 10.00m depths, boreholes to a depth of 20.00m to 25.00,=m have been drilled. Population also increased with city developments. Net result is indiscriminate pumping of groundwater that causes groundwater depletion. Now in some places like Saidapet, Alwarpet, Nungambakkam, Egmore and Royapettahpeople gone further to tap groundwater from the underlain crystalline basement (fractures & joints) rocks. The beach sands and Adyar river alluvium aquifers in Adyar and Besant nagar were a goodpotential zone in the past. But due to the same indiscriminate mining of groundwater from this rich potential aquifer, the groundwater level has gone down considerably in these areas also. The groundwater level has gone down below Mean Sea Level and faces serious threat of seawater intrusion. b) Tertiary and Gondwana Groundwater in sandstone of tertiary and Gondwana that occurs below alluvium especially on the western fringes of Chennai city is moderate to poor in quantity. This is due to more clayey nature of sandstone. (in the western fringes of the city the thickness of alluvium is around 10.00m). c) Archaean (Crystalline) This hard rock formation is seen on the southern side of Adyarriver in places like Guindy, Raj Bhavan, Velachery and Tharamani. Open wells and bore holes are common groundwater structures in these areas. Now a days people prefer only 6 borehole as the open wells have gone dry. Boreholes have been drilled to a depth of 35 m to 40 m. But the yield is reported to be poor. (iii) Drilling: The drilling types are different according to the formation of the terrain. In general, DTH rigs are used in Hard rock formations for drilling a borewell at a depth ranges from 30m to 200m, according to the extension of joints, fractures, lineaments, etc in an area. In Sedimentary formations, rotary rigs with different rotors used according to the Tube well’s diameter. The Bento novate clay is used in rotary rigs to avoid the collapse of the Tube well. The sedimentary tube wells are drilled up to a depth of 30m to 300m depending on the area, yield,etc. In alluvial formations, the hand rotary used for drilling tube wells ranges from 10m to 15m.In river beds, infiltration tube wells used for extraction of groundwater. In Hard rock, the well designing is simple. The upper top soil and highly weathered zone is cased with PVC pipe and the remaining weathered, Fissured, Jointed portion is left as it is. In Villupuram District, the weathered zone ranges from 1.0m to 12.0m. In Granitic gneiss area, the highly weathered portion will be more up to 15m but in charnockite area, the weathered zone will extend up to 8.0m to 10.m only. In Sedimentary area, the well construction depends on the occurrence of sand thickness in the referred area. The logger is also used in the construction to identify the area of good quality of water.
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