Coimbatore: A stretch connecting Puliyakulam Junction and G V Residency, which is not more than 3.2km The potholes were formed after the city corporation and Suez Private Limited, which are executing the 247 drinking water supply project in the city, fixed leaks in pipelines.“Every other day, water leakage is reported on the stretch and unless we make repeated calls for a week, no worker would turn up to fix them. There is not a single instance when the workers fixed the leakage within a day or two. When we have been struggling without drinking water, gallons of water is getting wasted,” said R Parvathi, a residents.While the workers of the private company were struggling to fix the leakage at six different places on the stretch, water was leaking at three other spots. “We are receiving contaminated water because of the leakage in water pipelines most of the days. We have been facing the issue for more than one year. Usually, it takes them a week to fix a leak. So, drinking water gets wasted for a week,” Parvathi told TOI.Most of the times, the workers do not restore the patch of road after digging it to repair the leakage, said N Duraisamy, another resident. “They just close the pit with debris. Whenever it rains or water flows over it, the area gets muddy. Most of the potholes on the road were created because of the leakages.”Pointing out that the road is one of the congested roads in the city and once in 10 minutes, a bus passes through the stretch, Duraisamy said that the road has become a nightmare for motorists. “As the corporation has placed sign boards at multiple locations, motorists will have to take turns to cross the points,” he said.Explaining that accidents have become common, another resident S Shanmugam said that school and college students regularly use the road to reach educational institutions and the road has become unsafe for them.Both the main water pipeline and distribution lines are passing through the road, a worker, who was fixing a leak, said. “As both the pipelines are decades old, they cannot withstand the pressure of the water that is released based on the current demand. When we fix a leak at one point, the pipe breaks at another point.”Corporation officials promised to look into the issue.

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