Ramalinga Nagar, north of Saibaba Colony, has been in the news for the residents’ initiatives towards keeping the area clean. But the Coimbatore Corporation’s inaction in removing garbage is threatening to undo all that.
On the western and eastern periphery of the park in the area, the civic body had dumped garbage and not removed those for a month, complained the head of the Ramalinga Nagar Park Users’ Association president M.S. Vijayaraghavan.
The dried leaves, twigs and other degradable waste that the corporation had dumped and not removed was not only affecting the usable width of the roads on both sides of the park but also turning it into a garbage dumping spot.
Road users, who drive through the stretch had starting throwing garbage on the piled-up degradable waste and their action was undoing whatever good work the residents had done to clean the area and remove bins.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan also said that all the residents in the area segregated waste and directly handed it over to the corporation and, therefore, there was no bin in the area. They wanted the corporation to complement their work by clearing the dumped waste at the earliest.
The residents had drawn the corporation’s attention to the issue by way of a petition in September last week but were yet to get relief.
He further said that the pit the corporation had dug inside the park to dump degradable waste from the park was also turning into a place to dump garbage. The residents’ request was that the corporation should close the pit as it was constructing a micro composting centre.
The other issue that the residents wanted rectified at the earliest was the damage caused to the drinking water pipeline by telecom service providers who undertook cable laying work, a few months ago.
The telecom service providers had not closed the pit. As a result, water stagnates in the pit of over six feet deep and after the water supply stops, the muddied water seeps into the pipeline and contaminates the residents’ sumps, rues resident L. Krishnamurthy.
Recently, the residents of the area were forced to repair the water meters, which could have been avoided had the corporation plugged the leak in the pipeline and taken to task the companies.
Corporation officials said they would remove the waste, look into the issue of the pit turning into a garbage and plug the leak in the water pipeline.