This story is from June 13, 2019

Traffic affected after road caves in at Madhya Kailash junction in Chennai

Traffic came to almost a standstill on the Sardar Patel Road and other roads leading to it, including the Gandhi Mandapam Road, on Thursday morning after the road caved in at the busy Madhya Kailash junction.
Traffic affected after road caves in at Madhya Kailash junction in Chennai
The road could have caved in due to a leakage in the underground pipeline, Metrowater officials said. (TOI photo by R Ramesh Shankar)
CHENNAI: Traffic came to almost a standstill on the Sardar Patel Road and other roads leading to it, including the Gandhi Mandapam Road, on Thursday morning after the road caved in at the busy Madhya Kailash junction.
The road could have caved in due to a leakage in the underground pipeline, Metrowater officials said. Though crater was noticed around 2.30am, work to repair it started only after 10.30am.

In November 2015, the road caved at the Madhya Kailash signal owing to heavy rain and floods.
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Traffic came to almost a standstill on the Sardar Patel Road on Thursday morning (TOI photo by R Ramesh Shankar)
Relaying the pipeline
Metrowater is mulling a proposal to relay the entire sewage pipeline that has been a major cause of concern. The pipeline laid about 30 years ago was highly corroded and damaged, said officials.
It carries sewage from Adyar zone to Perungudi sewage treatment plant. Metrowater officials who had attended to the work a month ago said they were not aware that the leakage was spread to other portions of the pipeline.

“The pipeline that carries sewage from a part of the Adyar zone to Perungudi sewage treatment plant was damaged for nearly a month. We realised it only on Thursday and are now replacing the 1000mm diameter pipeline. There could be similar corrosion and damages to the pipeline along the entire stretch since sewage usually emits gases and chemicals. Most of the leakage takes place at these joints portion of these pipeline. We have sent a proposal to replace the entire pipeline on the stretch. The government will take a call on it,” said a metrowater official.
The Greater Chennai corporation said that the road belonged to the bus route department. “Now, the metro water is repairing the pipeline and will pour soil and debris for it to settle. After that, cement would be laid to patch up the road. Later, we will call for tenders and lay the stretch,” said an official.
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