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The Deputy Commissioner of Mandya, Kumar, directed officials successful the territory to instrumentality due measures to halt the travel of untreated sewage into the Cauvery river.
He chaired a gathering successful Mandya connected Monday (November 24) aft the Upalokayukta filed a suo motu lawsuit upon observing that wastewater from the municipality has been flowing into the Cauvery adjacent the Wellesley Bridge successful Srirangapatna.
Dr. Kumar said that a committee has been constituted and accorded the work of constructing a obstruction crossed the the stream adjacent Wellesley Bridge constituent truthful that sewage does not participate it.
He noted that sewage from Srirangapatna municipality flows from Rampal Road successful the bluish portion towards Chikkahole (water gate), runs alongside cultivation land, and past reaches Wellesley Bridge from Biddakote earlier yet entering the Cauvery.
‘’A obstruction adjacent the h2o gross astatine Wellesley Bridge tin assistance forestall this contaminated h2o from mixing with the river,’’ helium added.
The Deputy Commissioner further said that different obstruction volition beryllium built adjacent the Biddakote Ganapati Temple and a bedewed good volition beryllium constructed astatine a suitable determination portion the sewage volition beryllium diverted.
‘’The contaminated h2o volition beryllium collected successful the bedewed good and pumped done the existing bedewed good located supra the Biddakote Ganapati Temple. It volition past beryllium diverted to the sewage attraction works astatine Ganjam for technological treatment,’’ helium explained.
It was pointed retired that a obstruction has already been constructed adjacent the h2o gross astatine Wellesley Bridge but owing to recurring floods and dense outflow from the Krishna Raja Sagara dam resulting successful the precocious measurement of h2o successful the river, operation of different obstruction adjacent the Biddakote Ganapati Temple has been delayed.
‘’With the flood levels present receding, the pending enactment volition beryllium completed and steps volition beryllium taken to guarantee polluted h2o does not participate the river,’’ Dr. Kumar assured.
Chetan Yadav, tahsildar, Srirangapatana, Pratap, Executive Engineer, Urban Development Cell, engineers from the Public Works Department, and officials from the Mandya Zilla Panchayat were among those present.
