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Forum pinpoints failings of project

CHENNAI: A meeting to discuss the shortcomings of the Chennai City River Conservation Project (CCRCP), a project conceived to protect the city waterways from pollution, was held in the city on Sunday.

It was organised by the Citizens Guardians, a registered citizens’ forum.

Chairman of the forum V. Ravichandran, said that even after completion of the project, executed at the cost of more than Rs. 1,200 crore, there had been recurrent sewage overflows and caving in of manholes in different parts of the city.

He cited the collapse of the sewerage system on the Anna Main Road in K.K. Nagar and caving in of manholes in Mylapore, K.K. Nagar, T. Nagar and Ashok Nagar as examples.

Mr. Ravichandran alleged that after the execution of the project, the number of sewage outfalls in waterways had only doubled.

Having installed big sewage pipelines , there seemed to be no mechanism to examine the efficiency of the sewage outflow. A calamity was waiting to happen in the form of sewage leaks leading to contamination of ground water, he added.

S. Kumararaja, secretary, Federation of Velachery Residents’ Welfare Association, who spoke at the meeting, said that despite modernising sewage treatment plants and increasing the capacity of numerous sewage pumping stations, the residents of many localities in Velachery were faced with overflowing sewage and stagnation of sewage-mixed-rainwater during the monsoon.

Sewage from various parts of Velachery got collected at the pumping station on Taramani Link Road, which is pumped to the L.B. Road pumping station, from where the sewage is pumped to the Perungudi Sewage Treatment Plant.

Chennai Metrowater has not been able to undertake any expansion work at the pumping station on the Taramani Link Road, as it lacks space.

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