The Hindu 16.05.2013
Works on to plug leak in drinking water pipeline
Action follows complaints from residents of Bharathi Park.
Two days after the residents of Bharati Park complained
of sewage mixed water supplied to the area, the Corporation has on
Wednesday replaced a damaged pipeline to remedy the situation.
On
Wednesday, after ascertaining that the leak had happened because of
damage to a drinking water pipeline at the NSR Road – Raja Annamalai
Chettiar Road Junction, the Corporation officials swung into action to
replace the pipeline. The officials used a cast-iron casing pipe to
replace the damaged PVC pipeline.
According to
sources, once the work was complete, the water supply managers would
pump water to check if there was any further mix of sewage with the
drinking water. If there was one, they would identify other spots where
the water supply pipeline could be damaged. Else, they would close the
work spot and restore supply.
Prior to identifying
the aforementioned spot, the water supply managers had dug at a few
places at Bharati Park and along NSR Road to know where the leak had
happened. Even as they kept digging at a few places, the managers also
cleaned the supply lines with chlorine to ensure that the quality of
water was good after resumption of supply.
The
sources said that if there were no further leaks, the Corporation would
supply water by Friday to the areas that got sewage-mixed water on
Monday last. Residents of a host of residential colonies in the area had
complained that the water supplied resembled black phenyl and was with a
foul odour. They had also raised the issue with the Commissioner, G.
Latha.
Soon after the issue came to her notice, Ms.
Latha asked the water supply managers to coordinate with the engineers
in the JNNURM wing to ensure that during the execution of the storm
water drain work, no water supply pipeline was damaged because supply of
sewage-laced drinking water to the residents was a very serious issue.
She also asked City Engineer in-charge K. Sugumar to ensure that such an incident did not recur.
