In a few areas of Ambattur, especially in Old Town localities including Thiruvengada Nagar, some residents are faced with the unenviable task of having to dissuade their neighbours from letting out sullage onto the streets.
Giving the background to the problem, a few localities in Ambattur, including Thiruvengada Nagar were provided with drainage connections under the new multi-crore underground drainage system project, being executed by Chennai Metrowater. As per the system, each house would have to go in for a drainage connection that would be linked to the main drainage system. Most residents living in independent houses took the drainage connection immediately. But residents of a few multi-storey apartment complex are said to be insisting that they take just a single drainage connection for the entire complex.
Chennai Metrowater has tried pointing out to residents of these complexes that a multi-storey apartment complex cannot have just a single connection of Rs. 7,500 as the volume of drainage discharged from it will be huge.
Due to this, many apartment complexes discharge sullage onto the streets.
“We want to persuade residents of these apartment complexes to take as many connections as there are units. We plan to achieve this by organising meeting between residents and the authorities concerned,” says S. Suresh, Secretary, Thiruvengada Nagar Residents' Welfare Association.
