shutters remain opened for nine months in every year the periodic tidal inflows from the Arabian sea will washout most of the accumulated impurities and wastes in waterways and channels around the padasekharams. To some extent monsoon floods can be controlled by the restructuring of the Thottappally Spillway and the periodic removal of the accumulated mud from the Alapuzha-Changanacherry main canal and the other channels in this area. Local bodies maybe persuaded to
