Summary:
Nauseating: Drainage water flowing into the Chinthamani channel at Samanatham near Madurai. | Photo Credit: G_Moorthymore-inThe drive to Samanatham, a village located a few km off Ring Road, is pleasant. Corporation officials visited the village two years ago and asked for a map of Samanatham, promising that a sewage treatment plant would be established to provide treated drainage water for irrigation. The stream carrying the sewage is connected to the Chintamani channel located close to the city. The Kiruthumal river used to flow through these parts and beyond the Ring Road into Puliyur..