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Private body gets nod to clean two water bodies in Coimbatore

Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:55 administrator
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The Hindu                 30.04.2013

Private body gets nod to clean two water bodies in Coimbatore

RAAC will make use of silt to strengthen the bunds.

Coimbatore District Collector M. Karunagaran has accorded sanction to the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore (RAAC) to clear two water bodies of silt in the city and enhance the storage capacity. The two water bodies are Ukkadam Big Tank and Singanallur Tank.

RAAC president C.R. Swaminathan and secretary R. Raveendran petitioned the Collector seeking permission to clean the tanks help in re-charge of the aquifers in a bid to improve the ground water table. The plea was for early permission before the onset of the South West monsoon.

Complying with the condition imposed by the Collector and the State-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Tamil Nadu (EIA), RAAC will make use of the silt to strengthen the bunds and also to create mounds in the respective tanks.

There will not be any removal, transportation of silt or use in any other commercial venture.

The green signal to clear the tanks given to a private party comes after clarifications with the Executive Engineer of Water Resource Organisation (WRO) of the Public Works Department and a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Corporation.

EIA had said that if the proposal was for increasing the storage capacity and to help in recharge of ground water in the nearby areas and if the tanks do not have any culture command area, the project will not attract the provisions of EIA notification of 2006 or its subsequent amendment in 2010.

RAAC has thanked Mayor S.M. Velusamy, the Collector, Corporation Commissioner G. Latha, Deputy Commissioner S. Sivarasu, PWD and EIA officials for expediting the process of their petition so as to commence the works at the earliest. RAAC has been given time till May 31, to complete the works.

 

15 buildings face music in Kovai

Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:00 administrator
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The New Indian express                30.04.2013

15 buildings face music in Kovai

Totally 15 buildings that had resorted to various violations were sealed by the officials of town planning wing of the Coimbatore Corporation during the second day of the drive against illegal structures here on Monday.

Three buildings in central zone and 12 buildings in East, North and the West zone respectively were sealed under the 56, 56 2 (a) and 57 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971.

While two buildings located on TV Samy Road near RS Puram deviated from the actual plan and had utilised more space, an additional floor without approval was constructed at a  building on NSR Road near Saibaba Colony.

Some complexes located at Sukrawar Pettai, Mill Road, Mettupalayam Road, Ganapathy, Saravanampatti, Nanjappa road, Thudiyalur where structures had been raised without allocating space for parking were also sealed.  Two buildings on Sathy Road in Saravanampatti and Ganapathy that have constructed additional floors also faced the tune. 

The Corporation claimed that it had sent notices to owners of those buildings, which have committed violations, one month ago. However the owners failed to rectify their violation. 

 Sources said that out of 55 buildings that have violated norms, three were residential complexes built on a space of 3000 square feet. Action on these structures would be initiated in the third phase, sources said.     

However, the building owners can get court or government order to reopen their complexes, informed sources said.

 

No new water connections now

Monday, 29 April 2013 05:08 administrator
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The Hindu                29.04.2013

No new water connections now

Parts of city to get water supply from new scheme by month end.

The Tiruchirapalli City Corporation has decided to suspend sanction of new drinking water connections in the city temporarily given the depleting yield from the Cauvery, the city’s main water source.

All applications for new water connections will be processed but the connections will be given only after June 1. The quantum of water supplied to the city from the Cauvery has fallen to 84 million litres a day (MLD) from the normal 96 MLD.

With a long summer ahead, the corporation officials are pulling all stops to ensure that the current level of water supply is maintained over the next 45 to 60 days.

The civic body has sunk five additional deep borewells around the Kambarasampettai Collector Well to supplement the water supplied to the city. But with the Cauvery remaining dry since December, the yield from most of the water schemes has started coming down drastically.

Corporation officials are pinning their hopes on the new Rs. 221.42-crore drinking water augmentation scheme currently being executed in the city and hope to supply water from it to areas facing short supply by the end of this month. The officials had previously said that some parts of the city would get water supply from the new scheme by the end of March. Some parts of Woraiyur and Vayalur Road in the city are getting water from the scheme on a trial basis.

The delay in getting the distribution lines ready from many of the 37 overhead tanks being constructed under the new scheme is giving some anxious moments to elected representatives. But corporation officials are planning to pump water to some parts of the city by linking the new pumping mains with the existing ones. “We have already laid pumping mains for a stretch of about 77 km and trial runs are under way, which could normally take about three to four months. But we are planning to begin supply to 23 OHTs up to Ponmalaipatti from the new scheme by the end of this month,” said corporation commissioner V.P. Thandapani. The new scheme has its source at the Coleroon and already all the three collector wells are ready. The corporation has started pumping water from the first collector well of the scheme a couple of months ago to feed a few tanks in Woraiyur. It would initially draw about 60 million litres a day (MLD) from the new scheme and the additional supply is expected to tide over the short supply in at least some of parts of the city by next month.

Meanwhile, the civic body has appealed to the city residents to use drinking water judiciously and warned people against sucking water from the distribution mains by using motor pumps unauthorisedly. Water connections to offenders would be disconnected and criminal action initiated, Mr. Thandapani added.

 
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