The Hindu 30.01.2010
Pilloor supply may resume in city on Sunday
Special Correspondent
| ‘Shutdown the best time to identify, plug leaks’ |
— Photo: M. Periasamy. 
FOR UNINTERRUPTED SUPPLY: Workers plugging a leak in the Pilloor water scheme mainline at Ganapathy in the city on Friday, during a shutdown to carry out maintenance works.
COIMBATORE: The supply of drinking water under the Pilloor scheme may resume only on Sunday as the plugging of leaks and other maintenance works may be completed on Saturday, water supply officials in the Coimbatore Corporation said on Friday.
The Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board had announced on Wednesday that the supply would be suspended on Thursday and Friday to shift the supply line near Irugur to enable the widening of Tiruchi Road. The board wanted to make use of the shutdown to carry out inter-linking of lines and plugging of leaks in other places.
Assistant Engineer of the Corporation K. Karuppusamy said the shutdown was the best time to identify and plug leaks as this work was difficult to carry out during supply days as it would require suspending supply only for this purpose.
The leaks near the telephone exchange at Ganapathy, on FCI Road, at Athipalayam Pirivu and near Ramakrishnapuram were being plugged and this work would be over on Saturday.
The pumping of water would resume thereafter. After water reached the main service reservoir in the city, the internal supply was expected to resume on Sunday morning, the official said.
