New Delhi, Oct 7 (Inditop.com) An underpass, which was submerged due to a burst water pipeline minutes after being inaugurated Tuesday in east Delhi, remained flooded a day later as workers tried to repair the damage and pump out water.
The Vikas Marg underpass was meant to ease traffic congestion but the three-decade old rusting pipeline played the spoil-sport.
“The pipe line was very old – 30 years old. We are in the process of replacing it. Even as we speak, water is being cleared from the area and the pipeline repaired,” Sanjam Cheema, spokesperson for the Delhi Jal Board told Inditop.
She added that the construction of the underpass may have been the last straw for the rusting pipeline.
“All these things do impact. It is one of the pipelines that takes water from the Sonia Vihar treatment plant to parts of south and central Delhi. But since there are two more supply lines from the plant, impact was not much in terms of water shortage,” she said.
In April, the same pipeline burst at the same spot when the underpass was still under construction.
