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Written By psaram42 - 11 October, 2009
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The Place is at Indiranagar Double road. Excellent clearing of closed Storm water Drain of muck clogging the drains is almost coming to an end. Only hitch is that the Rainy season is also getting over soon. This work is now going on for almost two weeks.
This is the double road connecting BDA Indiranagar to 12th main Indiranagar. It enjoys SWD covered with stone / RCC slabs.
The amount of black mud removed is enormous. It is taking almost two weeks to remove. I wonder where this mud is going to be dumped?
I have a suspicion that this mud as well as debris of many old dilapidated houses being demolished, is being dumped at the huge wet Land of Bellandur Lake.
May be it is worth investigating.
Above is a full view of the road further. The Indiranagar BDA is just at the far end of this road.
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psaram42 - 12 October, 2009 - 03:11
I was told that the silt removed from SWD is wet and hence heavy. The contractors who are responsible for the removal of the silt refuse to remove it when still wet. I had faced this problem earlier, in front of my house. I lodged a complaint. The silt was removed after a few days.
An early Roman day's Technology indeed.
psaram42 - 12 October, 2009 - 03:04
Is it very difficult to filter at entry the storm water to hold back the mud entering the drain? I wonder. The maintenance of our roads is far from satisfactory.
The local MLA of CV Raman constituency Mr. Raghu is now a days acting as a local corporater. He has announced about his performing pujas for each foot path development work being undertaken on 80 ft road, Indiranagar and several others perhaps. Similar pujas were performed year long for Tarring roads in the constituency.
wow!!! thats some erosion!! wonder how it is systematically controlled. yesterday noticed that at a construction site, the local erosion control board had installed plastic compound around the perimeter of site. must be more to it. must look into it.
one of the things is sand that gathers on the edges of roads. (in blr/mys areas, it is yellow. very visible. in hubli/dwd it is reddish/black gives a very mucky impression. have not seen that much of it in udupi/m'lore area.)
idontspam - 11 October, 2009 - 20:13
Was wondering why all that rubble was left lying on the sides to waiting to get back in. I found the answer here
SWDs are maintained by two departments within the BBMP. While one department should clear the silt and garbage, the other department is responsible for clearing it from the surface. If one completes its work, the other department delays it and the silt removed from the drains returns to the SWDs after some time.
Reminds me of the division of labour employed by railways cleaning dept. upto six feet one dept, after that another dept, speakers and other instruments the electrical dept.
I think the joke is on us, citizens.
psaram42 - 12 October, 2009 - 03:52
Mud is carried by the Storm water from the road into the drain. This happens because there are no suitable meshes provided to hold back this mud flowing into the drain. Storm water just gushes into the drain taking all the mud on the roads along with it. The colour of this mud changes to black because of fungus growth due to wet conditions, over the years.
I am sure that It is not enough to dream for an international standard metro station for Bangalore. It is high time that suitable standards are developed for the design and maintenance of roads in the city of Bangalore as well.
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