Sec 14 residents sore at blocked sewerage pipes

GURGAON: Residents of Sector 14 have been complaining to HUDA about the blocked sewerage lines of the colony but no action is being taken for the last two months. The sewage is out on the roads making life miserable for the residents.
Some efforts to fix the issue by cleaning the sewer pipelines this Friday also went in vein.
The sewer pipelines in Sector 14 were laid down in 1978 keeping in mind that the population won't exceed 4,000.Now when that bar has crossed the 15,000-mark, the old and downtrodden pipelines seem to have given up. Therefore, coagulation and blockage in pipelines has become a daily occurrence for the residents.
The situation deteriorates during the monsoon. "We've spent the entire monsoon with the streets full of sewage water," said G S Thakur, vice-president of the RWA in Sector 14.
Apart from being old, these pipelines are also too small to manage the waste from all houses collectively. Apart from the foul smell, the blockage had caused sewage to enter bathrooms in several houses of the Sector.
This happened mostly in lane with house number 80-90. "A month ago after waking up, I saw that my entire living room was drenched in sewage water", said Lata Divedi, a resident of Sector 14.
Neither the operators nor the junior engineer were responsive. It was onlyl when HUDA Administrator Praveen Kumar was approached that repair work was carried out on Friday. ,"I had even taken up the issue with Kartar Singh, executive engineer, but the simply sat on out complaint," said Mr Jain, another resident. Thakur claimed that the Friday's repair work was just a temporary solution.