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A dense downpour connected Sunday (September 21, 2025) nighttime caused flooding successful a fewer parts of the city, with rainwater mixed with sewage h2o entering astir 50 houses connected Kattabomman Street successful Kollampalayam.
The metropolis has been receiving continuous rainfall for the past 4 days, starring to wide h2o stagnation and overflowing sewage channels. In Kollampalayam, the sewage transmission spilled over, inundating houses and forcing residents to determination their belongings to higher ground. Revenue officials relocated the affected families to a adjacent schoolhouse and provided them with food. They returned location lone aft h2o receded aboriginal connected Monday (September 22).
At Erode railway station, passengers faced terrible inconvenience arsenic rainwater entered the premises. The pathways to platforms and areas extracurricular summons counters were submerged, forcing passengers to wade done stagnant water. Conservancy workers aboriginal cleared the premises. Waterlogging was besides reported astatine the railway underpass successful K.K. Nagar, Vendipalayam, and Kollampalayam.
This is the 2nd clip successful 4 days that sewage h2o has entered houses successful Kollampalayam. Residents expressed vexation implicit the civic body’s mediocre preparedness to grip the monsoon.
Bushes preventing the travel of h2o astatine a sewage transmission astatine Kattabomman Street successful Kollampalayam successful Erode | Photo Credit: M. Govarthan
“This is simply a susceptible country wherever flooding occurs each rainy season. Bushes and trees successful the sewage transmission artifact the travel of water, causing it to participate our houses,” a nonmigratory said, urging authorities to region the maturation and desilt the transmission regularly. Another nonmigratory added that a crisp crook successful the transmission worsens the flooding. “Either it is flash floods oregon sewage water, the civic assemblage should person taken each precautionary measures.” Residents demanded swift enactment to forestall repeated flooding, pointing retired that unchecked maturation on the sewage transmission continues to enactment homes astatine hazard during dense rains.
On Monday, Collector S. Kandasamy on with Corporation Commissioner Arpit Jain inspected the country and held discussions with officials.
