Marredpally burdened by 50-year-old sewage network

SECUNDERABAD: After more than 50 years, the sewerage network in Marredpally continues to be in a shambles. Not less than 80 to 100 complaints flood the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) metro customer care every day on problems pertaining sewer leakages and overflowing manholes.
Though HMWS&SB had prepared a detailed project report on a newer sewer apparatus costing Rs 275 crore in 2014, the DPR has gathered dust. “Laying of sewer trunks, outlet and inlet sewer network and construction of manholes have been proposed in the DPR,” water board general manager, O&M division-VII (Marredpally), D Sudarshan told TOI.

The main problem facing this residential hub, a senior official said, is that “the existing sewer network cannot carry the load of sewer water of burgeoning residential colonies” . The water board is also hamstrung by finances.

The water board has laid two types of sewer network, include E-main, covering East Marredpally, and M-main covering West Marredpally. A duplicate M-Main was laid between Marredpally via Bible House, Secunderabad, up to Fever Hospital Jn via Ashok Nagar at Nallagutta, and Marredpally.

Though the water board was ready to extend sewer network to more colonies in Marredpally, rock formations and denial of permissions for roadcutting have hindered work, a senior HMWS&SB official told TOI. “Whenever we get sewerrelated complaints from locals, our men attend to them on priority. We deploy mini tech jetting machines to clean the choked sewer network,” official said.