CMC — Or heading: CMC calls overflowing water cauvery water testing to get away from illegal connection mess up

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24Vinayakanagar 2nd cross, d group employee layout

While the city reels under water shortage Corporation or CMC water is a big relief. But it's not the same here in Doddabidarakallu, ward no 40, where people pay huge sums to local valve men hoping to secure their share on water.

Not just that but they could have got away with it until myself, a D group Layout Vinayaka Nagar resident found CMC water flowing incessantly from the blue Cauvery pipeline and checked with BWSSB if the water was cauvery testing as per claims from local valvemen.
Denying any such claims BWSSB also suspects several faults from local valvemen and work contractors. This can be a case of encashing the excitement for cauvery water from people.
"CMC valvemen and contractors claim that it's cauvery testing but we have not started anything of that sort yet. There is no connection with cauvery water supply to Doddabidarakallu area, a sub section of Herohalli " said Thimma Reddy, a BWSSB official.
Moreover Maruti, the local valveman left many such faulty lines overflowing and this must have affected the blue line pipes (cauvery). Above that water seepages from these pipes were unattended for two years.
As a resident, I tried to find out leakages amidst a lot of resistance from work contractor Mallikarjun And Valveman Maruti who tries to argue instead of fixing wastage of water to the ground. I was helpless until a team of BWSSB engineers visited the place and intervened. Joseph, Hoover, Environmental activist called this a scam from the growing Water Mafia around Andhrahalli main road, and other areas where these valvemen rule for almost a decade now. They also source waters tankers illegally and this has left innocent tax paying residents running from post to pole for basic amenities they deserve. They have also been subjected to a divide by valvemen who decide between people who should get water and people who should not get water based on the huge sum of money that is to be paid to them by building owners who won't reveal their illegal connections. These owners who can't leave their sumps overflowing owing to the illegal connections have been letting them to overflow to the unattended blue pipes. Thousands of litres of water goes waste and the residents of the same area who had not been given water in a regular basis are now waiting for a corporator to resolve this issue.
Besides this the valvemen are playing the blame game wasting BWSSB's time not giving the exact location of water seepages despite knowing the reason for it. They are reluctant to open or dig near the places where some adjustments must have been made to set up extra illegal connections that led to this blunder. To sum up valvemen and a few contractors who have been managing the CMC pipelines for over 8 years now managed to get illegal lines, valves that are out of sight and from various points that could also be causing the cauvery line mix up.
They favour only who are ready to pay more for water and most of these people who are ready to pay extra money use a lock to secure their sump doors so that they are not caught. And others who were expecting relief from cauvery water in future will just receive an overflow of illegal CMC pipes and not Cauvery water. This is the reality of spending crores of rupees on Cauvery pipelines. It is now a question whether to allow them to set up a cauvery meter for the blue pipeline because am not sure it's going to be that for me. The water seepage is also causing a menace around the BWSSB sewage Manhole, it's sickening that the valvemen can't identify the problem and fix it despite knowing the reason for water overflow.

With barely a month or two left for Bbmp elections road repairs, pipeline installations are on the rise and the hopes to curb such activities are dim