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Coimbatore residents should follow liable discarded disposal practices and refrain from littering nationalist spaces and waterbodies, speakers said astatine a assemblage cleaning thrust jointly organised by Siruthuli, PSG & Sons’ Charities and Coimbatore Corporation, astatine GV Residency successful Coimbatore metropolis connected Sunday (June 21, 2026).
The programme, titled “Watch Your Waste”, was organised to make consciousness connected discarded absorption arsenic portion of the ongoing efforts to reconstruct 3.6 km of a 13-km Gandhimaa Nagar Stream, an municipality h2o transmission that drains into Irugur Lake.
Addressing the participants, Singanallur MLA K.S. Sri Giri Prasath urged the nationalist to cooperate with civic authorities and voluntary organisations successful protecting waterbodies and nationalist spaces. Referring to the 300-acre Singanallur Lake, helium said specified waterbodies affected by sewage inflow and coagulated discarded contamination would beryllium restored and developed for nationalist use.
Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Katta Ravi Teja urged residents to manus implicit discarded to conservancy workers alternatively of dumping it successful unfastened spaces. While the Corporation regularly removed discarded dumped on roadsides, discarded being discarded into waterbodies continued to airs a large challenge, helium said.
Siruthuli Managing Trustee Vanitha Mohan said discarded absorption required attraction connected a warfare footing and urged the nationalist to not beryllium careless successful disposing of waste. Such assemblage consciousness programmes were being organised to beforehand liable discarded absorption and nationalist information successful protecting h2o resources.
According to a survey by Siruthuli, faecal coliform levels successful Urumandampalayam Pond exceeded 80,000 owed to sewage contamination. The organisation noted that polluted waterbodies could impact groundwater aquifers done seepage, underscoring the request to forestall sewage inflow and discarded dumping.
Desilting and bund-strengthening works were completed on a 3.5-km agelong of the Gandhimaa Nagar Stream. Fencing and algae-based remediation measures would beryllium taken up from June 25 arsenic portion of the adjacent signifier of restoration efforts.
The lawsuit was attended by L. Gopalakrishnan, Managing Trustee of PSG & Sons’ Charities, on with members of the nationalist and schoolhouse students.
