Sewage problems turn Happy Homes Avenue sad
Happy Home residents thought that the sewage water is reversing back due to improper laying of lines inside the blocks by the builder. We pooled the money and got the drains re-laid, but the problem still remains.
THE RESIDENTS of Happy Homes Avenue and Plaza are facing severe sewerage problems since more than a month. The blocks are adjacent to the sewage nullah constructed towards Fort view colony beneath the PVNR expressway.
The sewage from the adjoining NMDC colony and other apartments situated in the surroundings of the blocks flows into the nullah. The cellar of two of the blocks is about five feet below the Inner Ring Road level. The builder has not constructed a septic tank and a soak pit. Instead, the drain lines are connected to the nullah. All these years there was not much problem, but now it has become one.
"The present problem is due to the unplanned laying of sewerage main lines by the GHMC Rajendra Nagar Circle from an adjoining colony and other apartments up to the culvert just near the entrance of our blocks. The GHMC Rajendra Nagar officials built these blocks, without conducting proper survey of the area and our blocks level laid the main lines above our drains outlet near the culvert," says Mr Ghani, President of the Happy Homes Avenue.
"The residents thought that the sewage water is reversing back to our cellar due improper laying of lines inside the blocks by the builder. We pooled up the money and got the drains re-laid. Still, we faced the same problems. On thorough investigation, we found our outlet level in lower than the main line laid by the Municipal authorities. We lodged a complaint with the DMC Rajendra Nagar for rectification on main lines," says Iftekar, Secretary of Happy Homes Avenue.
The team of engineers deputed by the DMC has bluntly told them to go for a septic tank as they cannot do anything in rectify the lines laid already. “If this type of situation arose in a slum area, the officials would do the rectification on a war footing basis. The sanctioning of a building plan might not have taken place if the builder had not paid the betterment charges towards road, sewage and water lines to the blocks. Then, why this step motherly treatment to the people living in apartments by the GHMC officials?" ask a resident of Happy Homes Plaza.
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