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Good Evening,
This is a universal problem which i am trying to address and i hope some action to be initiated with respect to the same. The PROBLEM is illegal draining of sewage water into storm water drains.
Am happy that the state govt has taken steps to curb it however it is still at the grass-root level. Stopping public establishments ONLY will not solve the problem, what about the numerous residential tenements that indulge in illegal draining? They are the problem-makers, steps need to be taken to ensure that the facility of storm water drains is used only for Rain Water Harvesting.
A simple example is the problem in my street, i live at 30, aacini nagar, solambedu salai, thirumullaivoyal, chennai-600062. Have been residing here since 1997. Am very happy that the locality is growing in terms o[censored]rbanisation however what pains most is that health and hygiene is grossly compromised. There are a lot of commercial apartments coming up and they don't have a means of disposing off the sewage water in their tenement and thus let it into the storm water drains. End result is that the water table is spoilt and water in a few wells in our street have become in-consumable leading us to dig bore-wells. My question is how long before the bore-wells become in-consumable if this practise still exists?
This storm water drain empties into the Araabath Lake located on the Chennai-Tiruttani Hwy near GK Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya, once a clear source of water to the needy is now a dump-yard for excreta, urine and sewage. I still remember the good old days when there were birds of different kinds who used to flock there but now the smell of drainage drives them away i guess. No more fish culturing is carried out too.
This has been a very bad year in terms of rainfall and the need for conserving a drinkable source of water is the need of the hour! Cant a residential or commercial tenement invest on building a drainage sump? This can serve as an additional means of revenue to the state govt, they can build drainage sumps and emptying the drainage sump can be also carried out by the govt at a cost.
Hope this common man's post is taken seriously and steps taken to curb this practise on a whole.
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Even this lake's color is different compared to the ambattur lake (you can also check across wikimapia or google map) that represents how much this small lake is polluted by mis-use.
Lakes are supposed to be compounded and secured., Just like Law & Order, Traffic dept., we have, there should be an "Environmental Police" who should patrol, charge & arrest people polluting, burning wastes, dump waste etc.,
Adding a point, People here have more than 1 two-wheeler at their home, and not carrying the trash bags to drop into municipal trash bins on the main roads, instead they are burning it right before their houses, and neighbors are not questioning it..