Buckingham Canal

The Buckingham Canal is a salt water navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India for 420 km. The first segment of the canal was constructed in 1806, from Chennai north to Ennore. The canal was formerly used to convey goods up and down the coast to Chennai.

Today most of this traffic has transferred to the road. Since the mid seventies, practically no maintenance has been carried out on the canal with in the city limits. The locks on both the South Buckingham canal and the North Buckingham Canal have fallen into disrepair and none of them are operational.

Within the city of Chennai the Buckingham Canal is badly polluted from sewage and industrial effluent, and the silting up of the canal has left the water stagnant.

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Cooum River is located 0.4 Kilometres away from Buckingham Canal. Cooum or Kuvam River is one of the 2 "rivers" of Chennai, India, the other one being the Adyar River. The name of Cooum is derived from Tamil Literature from the word “coovalan” denotes a person who i - 1 Photo(s) Featured.

Chennai Flagmast is located 1 Kilometres away from Buckingham Canal. The Flag mast in the Fort, which was constructed by the British still stands withstanding the ravages of nature. This is said to be the tallest flag mast in India. - 2 Photo(s) Featured.

Chintadripet Station is located 1.1 Kilometres away from Buckingham Canal. - 1 Photo(s) Featured.

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