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BMC to resume road cleaning using water tankers

After a gap of more than two decades, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to resume using water tankers to clean road portions in the city that get covered due to regular parking of vehicles.

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After a gap of more than two decades, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to resume using water tankers to clean road portions in the city that get covered due to regular parking of vehicles.

Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar has made a provision of five water tankers with pumps (Firex) for the purpose in BMC’s budget for the fiscal 2012-13, saying cleaning roads’ inner lanes has been a difficult job for civic sweepers due to parking of vehicles.

“The corporation would clean roads 25-30 years ago. But the same could not continue over the ensuing years for some reasons including water shortage. However, with availability of the surplus tankers and treated waste water from Lovegrove Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), the proposal to clean roads regularly during early morning hours has been made,” a senior civic official said, requesting not to be named.

To begin with, the BMC plans to wash 25km of roads thus in city area first, while pockets in western and eastern suburbs will be considered for similar cleaning following availability of water from STPs in Versova and Ghatkopar.

Since treated water is available with the corporation, expenses incurred for the work will be minimal and separate monetary allocation will be made for the same, he added.

The BMC move has received a positive response from residents. “I think it’s a good idea. I remember the municipality used to water-clean entire roads some years ago, but had discontinued later. Now that it has decided to resume the same, it should provide enough number of vehicles to carry out the work,” said Phiroze Desai, a member of F-North Residents’ Federation. Desai also hoped civic personnel must sweep roads first and only then carry out the water cleaning.

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