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Can offer help: A transformer at Pachaikuppam, near the Ambur Municipality water pumping station. AMBUR: After a gap of over five years, the Ambur Municipality has taken steps to resume the supply of drinking water from Pachaikupam. Drinking water problem in Ambur is expected to be solved once the supply resumes. Water from Pachaikupam was pumped into a 12-lakh-litre overhead tank in the town. The pumping house at Pachaikupam was inaugurated during the tenure of C.N.Annadurai as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Residents said that supply of drinking water from Pachaikupam to Ambur was stopped for over five years as the water had turned saline. Tannery units in Ambur were blamed for arbitrarily discharging untreated effluents into the Palar. However, some tannery unit staff said that the problem had now been solved as the tanneries no longer discharge the untreated effluents into the river. The units had taken steps to treat the effluents. Municipal officials said that steps were being taken to set up a reverse osmosis plant at the Pachaikupam Pumping House site to treat the water before supply. The plant would be set up at an estimated cost of Rs. one crore and the work was yet to begin. The pumping house at Pachaikupam was constructed at the cost of Rs.60 lakh. Residents of Ambur town at present depended on the Saarangal Water Scheme for drinking water, which was supplied through public taps. The municipal officials said that water would be pumped through the pipelines to the overhead tank. Pachaikupam was three km from Ambur. Ambur Town Congress committee president E. Suresh Babu said that there were two transformers, one belonging to the Electricity Board and other belonging to the municipality at the pumping house. Besides, there was also a 120 HP motor at the pumping house. Though the two transformers were not functional, the municipality had been paying a monthly electricity bill to the tune of Rs.60, 000. A discussion was held sometime ago with the Electricity Board requesting it to reduce the bill amount. Based on the request, the amount had been reduced. For the past three months, the municipality had been paying Rs. 24, 000. Mr. Babu said the municipality had wasted Rs.one lakh, maintaining the municipality transformer, saying that the coil of the transformer was damaged. However, the municipality refuted the allegation saying that some parts of the transformer had indeed been changed. The transformer was now in working condition. However, no steps were taken with regard to the transformer belonging to the Electricity Board. Municipal officials said that the Electricity Board would attend to the transformer problem once the work on the reverse osmosis plant began.
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