Repair on pipeline hits traffic

Repair on pipeline hits traffic

Staff Reporter

BWSSB personnel had to pump out water to carry out the work

Water supply affected in Sadashivnagar and Sanjay Nagar


CAUSING INCONVENIENCE: Work being taken up to plug a leak on Bellary Road in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: It was wastage of precious water. As Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) struggled to plug a leaking water supply line, precious drinking water flooded the busy T. Chowdiah Road and surrounding areas on Sunday.

Even as BWSSB tried to arrest the leak near Bangalore Development Authority office, water supply was affected in Sadashivnagar, Sanjay Nagar and other surrounding areas.

BWSSB personnel pumped out water stocked in the cement pipeline since the supply was stopped. “We are yet to reach the leaking point, which is 2 metres below the surface level,” a BWSSB official said.
Promise

The official said the work was being carried out and promised that the leak would be plugged soon.

Following the repair work, traffic movement was affected near the junction of T. Chowdiah Road and Palace Cross Road.

For most part of the day, the pace of traffic going towards Windsor Manor slowed down. There were occasional traffic jams too.

Vehicles and people were forced to wade through water near the railway overbridge near Mount Carmel College.

A BWSSB spokesperson said as workmen were carrying out repairs at the leak-spot near Cauvery cinema, they had to let out the excess water in the pipeline near the railway overbridge. Repair on pipeline hits traffic

Staff Reporter

BWSSB personnel had to pump out water to carry out the work

Water supply affected in Sadashivnagar and Sanjay Nagar

Excess water let out in the pipeline near the railway overbridge

— Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

CAUSING INCONVENIENCE: Work being taken up to plug a leak on Bellary Road in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: It was wastage of precious water. As Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) struggled to plug a leaking water supply line, precious drinking water flooded the busy T. Chowdiah Road and surrounding areas on Sunday.

Even as BWSSB tried to arrest the leak near Bangalore Development Authority office, water supply was affected in Sadashivnagar, Sanjay Nagar and other surrounding areas.

BWSSB personnel pumped out water stocked in the cement pipeline since the supply was stopped. “We are yet to reach the leaking point, which is 2 metres below the surface level,” a BWSSB official said.
Promise

The official said the work was being carried out and promised that the leak would be plugged soon.

Following the repair work, traffic movement was affected near the junction of T. Chowdiah Road and Palace Cross Road.

For most part of the day, the pace of traffic going towards Windsor Manor slowed down. There were occasional traffic jams too.

Vehicles and people were forced to wade through water near the railway overbridge near Mount Carmel College.

A BWSSB spokesperson said as workmen were carrying out repairs at the leak-spot near Cauvery cinema, they had to let out the excess water in the pipeline near the railway overbridge.