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MARGAO
What’s the easiest way to handle an overflowing sewage chamber oozing out sewage mixed in the open? Situation demands that the chamber or the underground line choked with waste is cleaned up for smooth flow of the sewage water.
The sewerage authorities resorted to a short-cut method of tackling a choked sewage line near the Maruti Mandir area along the Eastern bypass road. Strange it may seem, but true that a pipe was fitted to a sewage chamber to drain out the overflowing water to an adjoining open space, leaving local residents to wonder whether this short cut way of handling the overflowing sewage chambers conforms to sewage disposal norms.
While many would question the rationale behind the decision to connect a sewage manhole to an adjoining drain, the incident has thrown up a pertinent question how the underground sewage line which was commissioned around 2-3 years ago has been choked with waste. And, the question that follows is whether connecting the sewage chamber to an adjourning storm water drain is an answer to the problem.
When The Goan called up the relevant sewage authorities to shed light on the modus operandi adopted to drain out a choked sewage line, an official was frank in admitting that the pipe was connected to the sewage chamber and the storm water drain to stop the sewage overflow in the open. The official conceded that the modus operandi was adopted to cap the nuisance posed to the public, but hastened to add that the officials have now cleaned up the underground line of the blockade.
He, however, pointed out that rainwater has not seeped into the underground line and the water that was overflowing from the chamber was only sewage water.
