Water-filling station makes road in Ashok Nagar slushy

We choose to avoid Seventh Avenue Road as CMWSSB tankers hinder free movement of vehicles

With perpetual spillage of water from the tankers of Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewarage Board Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewarage Board (CMWSSB), the narrow Seventh Avenue Road in Ashok Nagar is in a sorry state.

CMWSSB maintains a line of water-filling points along the compound wall of a Greater Chennai Corporation park and therefore tankers could be found parked along the road to fill water from the filling points. Water to these filling points are fed by borewells. Each tanker lorry, which has a capacity between 6,000 litres and 9,000 litres, makes an average of 10 to 15 trips every day. This has turned the road wet and slushy.

Residents say they prefer to skip this stretch as it is slippery and to avoid passing through the tanker lorries. Whereas on weekends, when there are a large number of visitors to the park, people have no other option but to take this road. “We have to restrain from going near the tanker lorries. Such facilities should be away from thickly populated lanes,” says K. Santhosh, a resident of Ashok Nagar. The tankers hinder an hassle-free movement of other vehicles. Also, the water spilled from the tankers remains stagnant on the stretch and thereby making it ideal for mosquito breeding.

“Steps will be taken to prevent such a damage to the road,” says a GCC official.

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