The Hindu 18.07.2009
Corporation begins work on removing silt from bed of Tirumanimutharu
Staff Reporter
| Commercial establishments have been dumping waste into the river, despite warnings |
Photo: P. Goutham 
Massive task: Salem Corporation workers began removing silt from the Tirumanimutharu on Friday. —
SALEM: The removal of silt in a portion of Tirumanimutharu, a major river turned sewer, began here on Friday.
The Salem Corporation has taken up the work as the river had accumulated silt due to dumping of solid waste by commercial establishments.
The Corporation has deployed a team of workers and earthmovers to remove the silt on a part of the river course between Ananda Bridge and Apsara Theatre.
Meanwhile, citizens urged the civic body to initiate concrete measures to prevent the commercial establishments from dumping solid waste into the channel.
Though the civic body had issued warnings earlier, the establishments continued to dump garbage in the channel.
People wanted the civic body to ensure regular cleaning of the channel.
They also appealed to the Corporation to expedite the implementation of the second phase of the Tirumanimutharu river project.
The second phase is aimed at lining the bed and bunds to a length of 590 metres in the upstream area of the river starting from Anaimedu and 2,210 metres in the downstream area, starting from Apsara Theatre.