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Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006

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Keelkattalai pumping station plan stayed

Special Correspondent

Follows plea that the project will affect the lake and spoil potable water

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has stayed the Pallavaram Municipality's proposal to install an underground sewage pumping station on the Keelkattalai Lake.

The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice D. Murugesan, granted the interim injunction on a PIL petition from a senior citizen, S. Ramaswamy.

Ordering notices to the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply, the Kancheepuram Collector, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the Pallavaram Municipality, among others, the Bench also directed the Vice-Chancellor of the Anna University to nominate a water management expert to inspect the activities at the site and file a report within four weeks. "The Municipal authorities and the Pollution Control Board are to give all necessary assistance to the expert," it added.

In his public interest litigation petition, Mr. Ramaswamy said the project would be detrimental to the 80-acre lake and spoil potable water available for the residential areas surrounding it. He claimed that works on the project had been started in flagrant violation of pollution laws and that it would pose serious health hazards to local people. He sought a direction to the authorities to relocate the project to a non-objectionable spot.

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