Mumbai: Residents of Bhandup, Vikhroli and Ghatkopar might lastly cheer after water provide to the realm resumed on Friday. Water provide to those areas had been affected for final 5 days after a pipe burst at Quarry Highway in Bhandup West.
The realm has been witnessing a sequence of water provide points. The provision line has gone bust thrice within the final 10 to 12 days. By the point repairs have been carried out on September 19, the pipe burst once more two days later. The BMC took the pipeline restore work on war-footing and at last the availability resumed on Friday afternoon.
“Lastly, after 4 days we obtained some water at this time, but it surely was slightly muddy. It’s okay, no less than we will perform our different each day chores,” stated Santosh Chavan, a resident of Vikhroli Park website.
Deepak Pawar, resident of Vikhroli station highway, stated, “It is extremely laborious to outlive with out water. We’ve got been going through the issue since Monday. We had to purchase mineral water for ingesting functions. However there are such a lot of issues to do apart from ingesting. The BMC ought to look into the matter and attempt to cease such pipe bursts.”
One other resident, Sanjay Kanagal of Ramabai Nagar, Bhandup, stated, “The pipelines are outdated right here so pipe burst incidents are very frequent. However the civic physique ought to take measures in order that the taxpayers do not face inconvenience.”
Based on sources from civic division, a proposal for laying a brand new pipeline on this space is being ready and the work is anticipated to start out from subsequent month.
N Ward Assistant engineer Mahesh Pawar, stated that the leak has been detected and repairs carried out.
The primary incident of water burst of a 900 mm pipeline, supplying water from Ghatkopar to Bhandup West, was reported on September 10, it gave method once more on September 19
Areas of Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, Vikhroli West, Vikhroli Park website, Veer Savarkar Marg, Vikhroli Station highway, Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, Ghatkopar West, Damodar Park, Sainath Nagar highway, Sanghani property have been closely affected.
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