Road caves in at Ganapathy in Coimbatore following drinking water pipeline leak

A astir 30-metre-long roadworthy cave-in that developed connected 80 Feet Road successful Ganapathy connected Thursday nighttime was traced to a leak successful an underground drinking h2o pipeline, officials said.

The cave-in occurred connected a agelong of the engaged arterial roadworthy successful Ward 20, raising concerns among motorists. Officials said h2o from the leaking pipeline had eroded the ungraded beneath the roadworthy surface, resulting successful the subsidence.

Following the incident, drinking h2o proviso done the affected pipeline was temporarily stopped to forestall further damage.

Corporation officials carried retired impermanent restoration works by levelling the caved-in conception with bedewed premix worldly to facilitate the question of vehicles. Barricades were placed astatine the tract and postulation was regulated.

Officials said excavation enactment would beryllium undertaken to place and repair the damaged information of the pipeline. The leak is expected to beryllium rectified wrong a day, aft which imperishable restoration of the roadworthy aboveground would beryllium taken up.