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Madhumitha Viswanath ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: Mounds of debris, tonnes of waste and sewage — Chennai’s rivers continue to get severely polluted as lorries openly dump raw sewage into the Cooum and Adyar rivers, and Buckingham Canal. Two weeks ago, a resident spotted a sewage lorry with a capacity of 24,000 litres emptying all its contents into a dry canal leading to the Cooum river near Red Hills-Madhavaram area. Though police patrolling has increased under the Maduravoyal bypass along Noombal Road, close to 40 lorries still dump sewage into Cooum river every day, said residents. “Near Ambattur bypass, close to 100 lorries dump sewage into stormwater drains every day. For the past four years, raw sewage have been dumped into the Buckingham Canal between this stretch..