Corporation wakes up, fixes drinking water leaks

Coimbatore | Sunday | 31st March, 2019

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The corporation has directed the firm to fix all the leakages on the road within a day or two. “The detectors are used wherever water contamination complaint are reported. Using the device, the workers identified the source of water contamination at half a dozen areas including Puliyakulam, RS Puram and Thadagam Road.”The firm has deployed over 60 engineers and over 600 labourers exclusively for maintenance, the source added. The firm was also directed to repair the places dug up for the work,” a corporation official said.A source privy to the project said that workers have fixed leakages at four places and the remaining would be fixed in the night. COIMBATORE: A day after TOI carried a report on the sorry state of the road connecting Puliyakulam and GV Residency, the city corporation on Saturday directed the private firm in charge of fixing water leakages to repair the pipelines and restore the dug-up portion at the earliest.Subsequently, water leakages at four places on the stretch were fixed.“Suez Projects Private Limited, which is executing the 24/7 water supply project in the old corporation limit, is in-charge of fixing leakages in 60 wards..