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As portion of its efforts to trim contamination successful the city’s waterways, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) has intensified its thrust against unauthorised dumping of sewage connected unfastened lands and successful waterbodies.
The CMWSSB precocious seized 2 vehicles for illegally decanting sewage into the storm-water drain web successful Adayalampattu and connected R.K. Shanmugam Salai successful K.K. Nagar. According to the CMWSSB, the sewage lorries were seized by the Area XI and Area X officials during nighttime inspections. The seized vehicles were parked astatine the Nolambur sewage pumping presumption and K.K. Nagar h2o organisation station. Action is being initiated against the operators on with the police.
Officials said 1 of the vehicles was a h2o lorry, which was operated nether a erstwhile declaration with the CMWSSB. The h2o bureau has initiated enactment against vehicles that were recovered releasing sewage into waterways specified arsenic the Buckingham canal, the Cooum, and the Virugambakkam-Arumbakkam Canal.
“We program to measurement up vigilance successful peripheral areas to forestall unauthorised merchandise of sewage into storm-water drains and waterways. The CMWSSB has already deployed squads and installed surveillance cameras astatine susceptible points successful Areas 3, 7, 11, 14, and 15,” an authoritative said. Residents of Nolambur and Mogappair said vigilance should beryllium accrued on waterways, peculiarly during nighttime time.
Balaji Srinivasan, nonmigratory of Mogappair West, said the storm-water drain web on the work lane of Chennai Bypass Road continued to transportation sewage. “This is simply a recurring contented contempt repeated complaints being raised with the authorities. The CMWSSB indispensable summation surveillance and GPS tracking of lorries,” helium added.
The CMWSSB said it had written to the section bodies successful added areas and territory medication to measurement up vigilance and person besides requested the residents’ payment associations to pass them astir instances of sewage being fto retired into storm-water drains.
The Septage Management Regulations and Operative Guidelines has mandated that lone registered operators are allowed to region sewage from the septic tanks successful houses and commercialized establishments. The CMWSSB has issued licences, which person a validity of 2 years, to astir 509 sewage lorries. It besides tracks the GPS instrumentality installed successful registered lorries.
Officials said connected an average, astir 1,537 trips were being operated regular to decant sewage collected from the fringes of the metropolis to 13 points dispersed crossed the city, including Nesapakkam and Perungudi. A decanting interest of ₹150 is collected per trip, and the licence is provided for a interest of ₹2,000 arsenic per the septage absorption guidelines.
