The Hindu 25.10.2013
Water quality to be monitored
The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board
(CMWSSB) has stepped up measures to monitor the quality of drinking
water to prevent contamination during the monsoon season.
Depot
engineers and deputy area engineers will monitor residual chlorine
level in at least 2,000 locations. In case of contamination, the
pipeline system will be segregated and mobile water supply will be
arranged for the affected location or street.
If any
major leak or burst occurs, the valves will be closed properly to avoid
flow of contaminated water. The process control lab, under the
supervision of the chief chemist of water treatment plant, will monitor
water quality intensively.
The board has instructed
area engineers to monitor water quality on supply days — Tuesdays or
Wednesdays — jointly with assistant health officers from the Chennai
Corporation and hold review meetings on Friday.
Complaint cell
CMWSSB
has set up a round-the-clock central complaint cell (Tel: 45674567 and
28454040) at its head office in Chintadripet. Complaints will be
conveyed immediately to the respective officer and addressed.
Following
instructions to desilt sewage network where obstructions occur
frequently, CMWSSB has desilted 68 km of sewage pipeline and will take
up desilting works on 65 km of sewer line from October 25 to November
30.
Instructions have been given that all 218 pumping
stations should be in a position to operate continuously and generators
kept ready in case of power failure.
