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OMJASVIN M D ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: The City Corporation after partially biomining a ten-feet deep landfill in Sathangadu near Thiruvottriyur has found a possible presence of a water body beneath it. The bioming of the 50-year-old landfill in North Chennai opposite to Buckingham Canal began early last month and when a part of the landfill was biomined, a presence of a water channel was found. This land was used by the erstwhile Tiruvottriyur Municipality to dump waste for decades,’’ said a Corporation official with the Zone. Based on this, say officials, there could be a water body beneath the landfill and only if the biomining is completed, we will know its original size. Only recently, the Corporation laid a fresh road connecting Tondiarpet and Santhangadu and gave the name Buckingham Canal Road..