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Udupi: Wastewater from apartments contaminating wells, locals worried

  •   Wed, Mar 02 2016 03:01:07 PM

Pareekshith Shet
Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi(EP)

Udupi, Mar 2: Residents in Puttur ward 10 under Udupi city municipal council limits have complained that wastewater from flats in the area has been contaminating wells in the neighborhood. Locals have alleged that CMC commissioner Manjunathayya and environment engineer despite being aware of the problem have remained silent.

The residents also said that the ward, despite being represented by CMC president Yuvaraj, has been neglected and become a victim of administrative failure.

There are more than 50 houses behind Laxmi Venkatesh Temple and the people are facing problems from Vinayaka Paradise apartments built here three years ago. There is a rainwater drain next to the apartments and the drainage water is being let in the drain. There is unbearable stink in the vicinity. People find it difficult to stay here. Besides affecting the environment, it has contaminated the well water of the nearby temple and several other wells of houses, it is alleged.

The people have complained about it to the municipal council which has provided water pipes to the affected houses. However, the indifference towards treating wastewater and finding a permanent solution to the problem has annoyed the residents. The wastewater has also become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. The locals have urged the municipal council to take suitable action.
  

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mangalore/Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 04 2016

    I have seen in Kulhekar area, many a times, as brownish/yellow like fecal matter, the color doesn't clear even after passing thru the best of water filters, forget drinking one cannot even imagine taking bath with it!!

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  • Haneef, Karkala

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is sleeping. Officials are so corrupt that they do not have any attachment towards nature.

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  • Louis, Udupi

    Thu, Mar 03 2016

    Effects of globalization, development, progress, vertical living.... We Indians do not have sense of care for the other when we live in a so called ghetto, vertically in a society and when we put up industries.... A culture of let me live and let the other go to XXXX.

    Industrial waste water and raw sewage is released to the river or sea untreated. Now we grow and develop further.... we release the waste and sewage water into some one else`s well.... who cares what happens next door as long as we are living high up and well enjoying the fresh air up from above and get into cars with AC where we do not have to see what happens in the ground floor and in the compound next where we live up in the air...?
    Are we only fit to live in huts and answer the natures call in the woods still???

    has it come to the clean and green villages and small towns where we used to drink fresh mineral natural water from the unpolluted and protected wells???

    How does the municipality or the urban authority give permission to buildings when they do not have a waste water / sewage plan???
    These buildings and industries should immediately be closed operating till they get in line with the basic regard and care for nature and for the fellow being that bear the brunt of their so called development and progress....

    responsible government official who gives a go ahead to such projects should be taken to task and educated. learning in humanities and in basic care for humans and nature should be a lesson in civil service and government functioning....

    let us learn to live in civilized society before we build industries and mass living vertical spaces...

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  • Evans Christopher Sumitra, UDUPI/NEW YORK,USA.

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    There are many buildings which have come up in Udupi and Mangalore,but with no drainage system at all. Yet more and more new buildings are under construction with no drainage facilities. So all this water seep to the wells and contaminate the well water. This is a serious matter and something should be done soon. It has been a breeding grounds foe mosquitoes and health hazard to the people.

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  • Vijay, Udupi

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    Terminate CMC commissioner Manjunathayya and environment engineer from work as a reward for their work as well as this contaminated water should be given to them to drink forcibly before terminate them. This punishment will be an example for other government officials of regions.

    These officials are inefficient, incapable, irresponsible personalities. instead give these jobs for the able people within the udupi regions.

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  • dinesh, Udupi

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    Both UMC and UUDA's are responsible for the cause. There is no sewage connection available to this area then how did the authority gave permission to build apartments understanding the repercussions being faced by both tenants and residents? District administration must conduct an inquiry on this.

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Mumbai

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    I heard, a water well should be at least 15 meters (50 feet) away from safety tank of a building, if the water can be used for any purpose other than drinking. With every cent of land becoming so costly, the problem of this nature will crop up in Mangalore and Udipi until a proper drainage system like Mumbai is established.
    While on one hand people are worried of Yettinahole project making the city dry, on the other, wells will be full of useless water. Ganga is not clean today, because dirty water from 173 cities flows daily into it.
    Water, water everywhere, but, not a drop to drink.

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    Very ignorant of the Municipal officials to have supplied water connection as a corrective measure. Tap water is payable while well water is free. Is this a ploy ? Or, the building block owner has thoroughly greased the palms of the officials ?

    What if the well water is used for irrigation ? It may be having faecal contaminations leading diseases like typhoid, etc. Discharging the drainage water into road side drain is a health hazard.

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  • Amith, Mangalore

    Wed, Mar 02 2016

    This is not only Udupi story Mangalore also facing same problem.. no proper drainage facility.. every where Flats..those who ruled us more than 60 years also now asking"where is ache din" ?

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