Chennai: The Adyar River, which was recently cleaned from garbage and waste with floods, is now contaminated again, this time by waste ends with a metretater pipe.
Because Pipeline Burst, Metrowater has issued 30-40 months of waste that was not treated to Muara Adyar near the Thiru Vi Ka Bridge for more than two days now.
The Board recently took a job to replace a 350 meter waste pipe, with a diameter of 1000m.
One of them, however, exploded because it was corrosioned and the board decided to divert waste to the estuary.
A group of bird fans visiting the area for a bird census finding discharge.
Some activists from the area also talked to officials, asking them to divert waste.
E D Babu, a marine biotechnology, told Ti that the river had been polluted over the past two decades.
“Even so, the disposal of so many raw waste to the estuary is not acceptable.
This is a place where animals and aquatic birds from the oceans and rivers settled to breed and feed their children,” he said.
A Metrowater official told Toi: “We do not expect that the pipe will break.
It brings waste from the pump station to the Perungudi waste processing plant.
We will transfer it as soon as possible.
Actually, we replace this pipe to prevent such a problem,” he said.
CR Balaji, an activist from the area, has filed a complaint with CM Cell.
“I have noticed a lot of illegal disposal to the river because the pipes are corrosioned,” he said.