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The Madras High Court summoned Tambaram Corporation Commissioner aft expressing daze implicit aggregate trial results confirming “a precise atrocious representation of acute contamination of drinking water” supplied to the residents of Chitlapakkam area.
First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan directed the commissioner to clasp a gathering forthwith with the method squad in-charge of treating the h2o and guarantee that the drinking h2o satisfies standards of purity.
The Bench directed the commissioner arsenic good arsenic 3 experts from the method squad to look earlier the tribunal connected October 10 on with a study detailing the enactment program devised by them to guarantee that the drinking h2o does not incorporate faecal coli oregon immoderate different contaminant.
The interim orders were passed connected a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by Chitlapakkam Rising Charitable Trust, represented by its manager Udhayavani Subramaniam, complaining astir the civic assemblage turning a unsighted oculus to the contaminated h2o supplied to the section residents.
Though the corp filed a antagonistic affidavit and denied the allegations of contamination, the petitioner’s counsel produced aggregate trial results obtained from authorised laboratories to beryllium the beingness of e-coli and different bacteria successful the samples collected from the area.
The tribunal was told that Chitlapakkam receives h2o from 4 sources: 8 infiltration wells laid on Palar riverbed astatine Palayaseevaram, 8 borewells laid on Palar riverbed astatine Melacheri, infiltration and borewells laid on Palar riverbed astatine Vengudi and 5 unfastened wells astatine Madambakkam lake.
The writ petitioner accused Tambaram Corporation of having miserably failed to forestall the inflow of sewage into Madambakkam lake, from tempest h2o drains arsenic good arsenic upstream lakes specified arsenic Selaiyur water and Tiruvancheri lake, thereby starring to ample standard contamination of the waterbody.
The h2o drawn from the unfastened wells astatine Madambakkam water was being supplied to the residents of Chitlapakkam by conscionable adding chlorine and without treating the h2o properly, truthful that it could beryllium escaped from each forms of bacteria and conforms to harmless drinking h2o standards, the petitioner spot complained.
