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Madambakkam residents oppose location planned for pumping station

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They say the project will render the park completely useless

— Photo: K. Manikandan

A view of the park where a pumping station is proposed to be set up.

TAMBARAM: Residents of five localities in Madambakkam near here have urged the Commissionerate of Town Panchayats and Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to reconsider the choice of a park as the location for a pumping station under the proposed underground drainage project in the local body.

Office-bearers of PENTA Residents Welfare Association said they welcomed wholeheartedly the much needed and crucial project for the development of their locality, but were against the location of a sewage pumping station in a park. PENTA Association comprises five localities – Parvathy Nagar, Bhagyalakshmi Nagar, Ambal Nagar, Greater Kailash and A.S.K.Nagar.

Officials said Metrowater had taken up work on execution of drainage projects in all the 13 Town Panchayats coming within the Chennai Metropolitan Area of Kancheepuram district.

In Madambakkam, the survey was completed and the detailed project report was expected to be completed shortly. Estimates were not yet prepared, officials said, adding it was likely to be executed under a scheme of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

They said as part of the project, a sewage treatment plant would be constructed on a seven-acre site in Pazhathottam in addition to three pumping stations and one of them would be built at the Kailash Nagar Park measuring about seven grounds.

Reacting to this, residents of the five localities and office-bearers of the association said they were upset.

They said there were only two parks – one at Greater Kailash and the other, a smaller one, at A.S.K.Nagar – in the entire vicinity.

Association upset

Building a pumping station would completely render the park useless, they said.

Noting that flooding was common during monsoon in the five localities, they said building a pumping station would result in problems similar to those in Nilamangai Nagar, the site of the main pumping station of drainage network of Alandur Municipality.

The proposed pumping station could be established on government lands nearby, the residents said.

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