Urban Flooding & It's Management

Almost all of the flooding which seriously the disrupt communication and the activity of the Mumbai city, with increasing regularity, are located within the large fill area bounded by the old islands. Not only is the ground levels low but the island of hard basalt rock form natural boundaries to the drainage areas.Development in the suburbs has taken place very rapidly in recent years. The drainage system is largely of open nallahs based on the original natural drainage channels. The system has not in all places been extended symmetrically to keep pace with development and indeed in many places development has encroached into the drainage channel thus reducing their capacity as the flows they receive has increased.Thought there are many flooding spots in Mumbai, the Hindmata flooding spot intensively affected. As the major traffic carrying road passes through this an area, it gives serious call to look into this matter.The project deals with finding a proper solution that can be adopted for solving the flooding scenario of Hindmata flooding spot of F/South ward, Mumbai.