[Resolved]  Ambattur Municipality — Unwilling to find a permanent solution and Wasting Public Money

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Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu

Dear Madam /Sir,

I live in Aval street , Rathinavel Pandian Salai, Golden George Nagar, Chennai 600107. The streets are inundated with water We have already approached the corresponding officials in Ambattur Municipality. Our place is used as a drainage place to drain the water from the all the near by places with in half a kilometer radius mainly from west and north west neighboring streets. A small electrical motor is used to pump out the water to the near by drain way. But this effort futile as the inflow of the water from elsewhere is much greater than the water pumped out. The level of the water has not gone down a drop but it is raising hour by hour and day by day and the purpose of our request is definitely not solved. And if this continues it might take more than 50 days to pump the total water out.

This water collected in out street is not just pure rain water. It is a great mixture of rubbish, dirt, sewage and drainage water from all our neighboring streets. It has totally contaminated our well waters and We are very likely to get water borne diseases as well water is our drinking water. We are running shortage of drinking water and I really cannot buy waters from shops as nae one is willing to house drop me the water as it is surrounded by water on all the four sides. If I have not harvested the rain water I would have been already dead and gone, either due to no drinking water or by drinking the contaminated water. I have explained this to the ambattur municipality officials, but they cannot actually believe what I was explaining or I should say that they pretend not to understand as they really don’t want to help us.

Despite 3 feet high water level School children, elderly and all living in this locality mostly poor people brave through this water to do our daily chores wetting and soaking our dresses. Having begged the concerned officials for help we feel we are rejected because we hail from mostly lower class or lower middle class family.

This problem is no new to us. Every year this seems to be a big problem for us for nearly 3 months. Last year the water level was 5 feet after days of begging for help it took more than 50 days to pump the water out of this place. This procedure o[censored]sing pumps to drain the water out of this place is done right from 2007.

It costs huge amount of money to pump out the water for nearly 50 days every year. With no doubt it is a huge waste of PUBLIC MONEY. With no help from any soul what so ever the water level is every year why is our money wasted in such an inefficient way? The cooum river is very very close by this street, is less than 500 meters from our street and is 25 feet deep. Can our money please be used to build a permanent drainage from Indiragandhi street to the cooum river? Previously we have even approached the Thiruvallur collector by email along with the photographs but in vain.

Here I am writing again all just begging you for help. I come from a lower middle class family and I really don’t have any alternative ways to find a solution for this problem. I live with my mother who is 64 years. This place is a great place for large number of Poisonous snakes and very often they find refuge in our house because its water every where, cannae blame them they are living creatures too. I am concerned as how we both can get help past these waters if one o[censored]s or both o[censored]s are bitten by those snakes. I am begging you for timely help.

MADAMS AND SIRS PLEASE HELP TO GET RID OF THESE WATERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND IMPLEMENT A PERMANENT SOLUTION. AS SIMPLE AS THAT, AND WE WONT BOTHER YOU AGAIN.