#BMC on Tuesday appealed to citizens residing in #Mulund West area to filter and boil water for drinking until further notice. This was as water tunnel conveying water from source to BMC's Bhandup complex water treatment plant which passes below ground through Thane city,(1/3)
has been damaged while the work of digging of borewell (in Thane) was ongoing. Therefore, the water supply coming to Bhandup complex through the water tunnel of BMC had to be stopped for the repair of the water tunnel.
For this reason, the old conveyance system will be used to deliver water to Bhandup Complex. Therefore water will be supplied without treatment to Veena Nagar, Vaishali Nagar, Swapna Nagar, Yogi Hills and Tambe Nagar Check Naka in Mulund West and
Kisan Nagar area in Thane City from Friday January 20. Therefore, the administration is appealing to the citizens residing in Mulund West area to filter and boil water for drinking until further notice.(ends)
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As the railway authorities today completed, 85% work of dismantling #CarnacBridge in South Mumbai, dwelling a bit into its history. The bridge was built between 1866-67 & opened in 1868 for “Public Traffic”, according to the inscription on it.
It is an iron and masonry bridge which has been named after James Rivett Carnac, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency from the year 1839 to 1842. According to History of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay by L. W. Michael (1902), the bridge was built (contd)
at the joint expense of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) and the Municipal Corporation. The bridge carried the #Carnac Road over the GIP Railway, connecting Crawford Market to the Prince’s Docks along the Carnac Road.
As numbers of sealed buildings in #Mumbai have increased over the past few days owing to rising covid cases, the BMC chief IS Chahal in a meeting held on Monday said that sealing of buildings with over five or more positive cases should be strictly done again.
He also instructed to ensure the presence of police personnel outside a sealed building. Over the past few days, at least seven buildings were sealed in the western suburbs which included those from #Kandivali and buildings from #Bandra 's Pali Hill
He said that considering the possibility of a third #covid wave, it is important to curb the spread of the virus and hence once a building with five or more cases is sealed no one will be allowed to enter or exit the building including #drivers and also house helps.