This monsoon the civic body plans to find exactly where the city stands in terms of waterlogging and has decided to install around 100 flood gauges with sensors at chronic spots. These flood gauges will be correlated with rainfall data from automatic weather stations, thus giving a better insight into rain and floodwater. 

Currently, there is no mechanism to understand the level of water at spots, so the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is preparing a plan to get real-time data of depth of floodwater. “We will install flood gauges at 100 locations this year on a pilot basis. They will send real-time height of water. We also asked for these to be connected with the rainfall data in that particular area, so we can correlate the issue,” said P Velrasu, additional municipal commissioner.