Fifteen years ago, the City Corporation to climb the pool in Urumandampalayam with the participation of the local population.
Today, the same pool was not visible.
Poor maintenance, encroachment is rampant and remove waste water from a nearby residential area literally disappear pool.
Now, it looks like an open ground for the accumulation of silt over the years.
Fortunately, the City Corporation has planned to give a new lease of life to an Urumandampalayam along with four other pools and three canals.
Urumandampalayam pond will be restored at a cost of Rs 65 lakh.
The restoration work will help improve the ground water table in the area of water nearby.
City Corporation has prepared estimates for Rs 4 crore to restore waterbodies.
“Estimates compiled based on instructions received from the Director of Municipal Administration.
Work will start after getting the nod from the higher authorities and the necessary funds,” said an official from the City Corporation.
Bunds of waterbodies will be amplified using dilamun from their land.
Inlet and outlet to be cleaned.
Tree plantation will also be done, he said.
M Devendran, a resident Urumandampalayam said, “It’s been a long wait for the demands of our people to revive the water.
It can help improve the water table soil if the water stored in it.
We are grateful to the Body of Civic because it has been developed to bring it back.
Area inlet and outlets should also be cleaned, “he said.
S Suresh of APJ Abdul Pasumai Iyakkam of Veerakeralam said that the proposed pool to be renovated in the area they now shallow because of accumulation of silt.
The pool is filled with weeds and bushes, he said.
S Sivaraja of Kousika team Neerkarangal say that there are many waterbodi in the city that need to be restored.
They have been turned into a dumping yard.
Waste water is also left to waterbodies.
In many areas, the lodge is being done in waterbodies.
These waterbodies can be used to harvest runoff water during the rainy days and to increase the ground water, he said.
“Civic body must educate citizens to not let wastewater into waterbodies.
Cleaning should be done such that runoff water can be collected during a rainy day,” he said.
Five ponds and three canals in the city to get a new rental of life
