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Residents of Ward 27 successful Salem Corporation are demanding measures to forestall sewage from entering the Sathram Teppakulam (tank) and repair the damaged sidewalls.
The Sathram tank, a fashionable spot successful Salem city, is simply a large h2o source for the residents of the locality, and radical utilized to portion its water. Now, however, sewage leaks into the vessel from a transmission passing by it owing to ungraded erosion, according to the residents.
Head of the BJP’s biology extortion compartment R.P. Gopinath said that isolated from the temple pond astatine the Sugavaneswarar temple, Sathram vessel was the lone waterbody successful a residential country successful Salem Corporation and is besides location to galore taxon of food and tortoises.
Before the Salem Corporation began taking drinking h2o from Panamarathupatti Lake, Sathram vessel served arsenic a root of drinking h2o for the residents. The Corporation, arsenic such, should support 1 of the oldest tanks successful Salem, helium said.
R. Srinivasan, a nonmigratory of Ward 27, said sewage began entering the vessel owed to ungraded erosion, and the contamiantion worsened implicit the past fewer weeks. The sidewall of the tank, too, was damaged, and 1 portion of it collapsed recently, helium added.
Offcials from the Sooramangalam portion of the corp said works would commencement connected Monday to forestall ungraded erosion, and the sidewall of the vessel would beryllium reconstructed.
