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The canal, which flows done the city, runs for a region of astir 71 km from Pettavaithalai to Vazhavanthankottai. It serves arsenic an important root for irrigating astir 32,000 acres and feeding 36 tanks.
Though the canal is being subjected to contamination astatine assorted points from the commencement to end, the 7 km agelong betwixt Palakkarai and Ariyamangalam successful the metropolis has been degraded arsenic the sewage canal owed to the letting of sewage from the houses and the commercialized establishments situated on the canal connected some sides.
Several steps were taken successful the past to cheque the residents and traders letting sewage into the canal. It was expected that the constitution of an underground drainage web would efficaciously forestall the practice. However, it continues successful antithetic points on the canal. The Tiruchi Corporation, which had identified 34 susceptible points of letting sewage into the canal, did behaviour consciousness programmes astatine assorted residential colonies situated on the canal. However, the signifier has not been brought nether control.
Civic activists assertion that commercialized establishments, including hospitals, restaurants, nutrient stalls, and others continued to dump garbage, rotting food and poultry waste. The contented is rampant from Natarajapuram successful Palakkarai and the residential colonies further downstream of the canal successful the city. Brushing speech the informing of the civic body, galore residents fto sewage into the canal done pipes.
“We see the Uyyakondan canal arsenic a large acquisition to the radical of Tiruchi. But it is unfortunate that the authorities acrophobic wage small attraction to forestall dumping of discarded and cheque sewage. The civic assemblage should enforce a hefty punishment to those letting sewage into the canal,” says K.C. Neelamegam of ‘Thanneer’, an organisation that works for preserving quality and the environment.
He said that the canal had go a breeding crushed for mosquitoes, insects and rodents, thereby troubling residents surviving on the riverbank. Special teams oregon committees should beryllium formed to patrol on the riverbank to forestall residents and vendors from discharging sewage into the canal.
