Cox Street in Kattoor turned as sewage pool
Sewage stagnates on Cox Street at Kattoor in the city on Monday.Cox Street in Kattoor was a sewage pool on Monday. Blocks in old, worn out underground drainage lines led to sewage bursting through manholes and stagnating on the street. Inside the houses of most of the 1,500 families in the Ramnagar and Kattoor areas, the situation was threatening to be equally bad. Blocks in the lines were pushing waste back into the toilets. Mayor R. Venkatachalam visited Cox Street and other areas along with Deputy Mayor N. Karthik, Health Committee Chairman P. Nachimuthu and Coimbatore Corporation officials to assess the problem. “These are 37-year-old lines that do not have the capacity to bear the increased sewage load,” he said. “But, we have decided to quickly solve this problem. The old lines will be replaced. Estimates for this would be prepared soon,” he said.About 5,000 people lived in these areas that had about 650 to 700 drainage connections. The waste water from here was conveyed through the underground sewers to the sewage farm at Ukkadam. “We are going to use block detectors as a first step. The removal of the blocks will provide relief immediately.Then, we can get into replacing the lines,” the Mayor said.Mr. Venkatachalam said efforts would have to be made to prevent the sewage from flowing into the subway below the Avanashi Road Flyover.
