A section of SV Road near Lucky Junction in Bandra West caved in on Friday, creating a large crater and causing waterlogging and severe traffic congestion. The incident occurred less than two weeks after pipeline work, though officials said the issue stemmed from an old pipeline
Less than two weeks after pipeline work was carried out on a section of SV Road near Lucky Junction in Bandra West, the road and metal lid over the pipe caved in, leading to flooding and disrupting traffic flow around 3.30 pm on Friday.When mid-day looked up the area on Google Maps at 6.47 pm, a 650-m stretch from Turner Road to the junction appeared badly congested. An old water pipeline had been replaced with one measuring 750 mm in diameter on March 29, and by 5 am on March 30, the BMC had successfully laid a tar road over the spot and installed a metal lid.
Since Friday morning, locals claim to have noticed water leaking from the road laid above the pipe, though many ignored this and did not contact the BMC.
At 3.30 pm, the road caved in, leaving a 10×7-foot hole through which water started spouting. Traffic police present at the spot said that the water immediately rose to an ankle level.
By 4 pm, the traffic police and officials from the BMC’s H West ward began managing the flow of vehicles by making the northbound lane a two-way street and shutting the valve, after which the workers started clearing debris to prepare the southbound stretch for traffic.
Denying that the incident had anything to do with the new pipeline, Dharmatejas Prassanadas, assistant engineer, H West ward, said, “An old pipeline had slid out. It is connected to the new one installed in late March. But the issue is limited to the old pipeline as of now.” Mandar Choudhary, assistant engineer of H West ward, said, “It is yet to be seen if any problem is caused to the water supply from Bandra to Santacruz due to this leak.”We rushed to the junction as soon as we heard about the incident and started to divert traffic and clear the area to the right of the hole, so that traffic could start moving from this side of the road’
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