Chennai: The municipality of Pallavaram once again lied to the National Green Court about pollution in the water body in South Chennai.
Civic’s body in some cases has told the court that there was no raw waste released to Pallavaram, Patheri and three other lakes around it.
But the video shot by residents last week showed that raw waste was left to the lake either directly or through storm waterways (SWDS), which was intended to carry excessive rain.
The local body uses a motorbike to pump excess waste into the SWDS.
In some areas, they have even drilled a hole illegally on the side of the channel pipeline to divert the excess waste into the SWD, show the video.
The municipality began to build underground waste networks in 2008 and finished work five years later.
Since the drainage system is opened for general use, residents often face problems.
“Underground networks are designed without considering gravity force.
Come on every October, waste starts to overflow from the got hole.
There are several protests for the quality of the materials used to build waterways and repair work.
But nothing has changed, said David Manohar., An activist The rights of citizenship of Arappor Iakkam.
“Excessive waste seeps into land so that polluting ground water tables.
We don’t know what the government is waiting to act on this problem.
They simply signed a report prepared by the municipality for filing NGT, “he said.
S M Govindarajan, the President of the Patel Nagar’s welfare association said,” All emergencies have collapsed here.
The smell of raw waste includes air throughout the city limits.
Does it need to be upgraded to the company with this infrastructure, “said City Official said they had asked 40 crores from the government to repair the waterways and replace the old pipe.” Previous waste waste caused by heavy rain during 2015 floods.
We have fixed these problems now.
This (repair drain) will also be finished soon, “he said, asking for anonymity.