6 Months After Gas Leak In Water Plant, Bmc Blames ‘negligence’ | Bhopal News

Bhopal: Six months after a chlorine gas leak from a water filtration plant in Bhopal brought back memories of the 1984 gas tragedy, the citizenship official says the incident cannot be described as “negligence”.
A high-level investigation into the incident that led to the hospitalization of over a dozen people last October has been promised. The October night incident was not an isolated incident. Another leak in the same facility occurred a few days later. The entire slum colony below was adversely affected by the chlorine leaking into the air and water flow below.
Six months after a senior BMC official conducted an inspection at the Idgah Hills water filtration facility.
BMC water supply city engineer Udit Garg said: “Oxygen cylinder, safety equipment and equipment have been provided at the water filtration station. We cannot see it (chlorine leak in October) as negligence. It’s a chlorine bottle. A leak occurred when changing the cylinder.” The 900 kg chlorine gas cylinder installed in the water treatment plant is supplied by a private company. The defective cylinder was returned to the company before dawn a few hours after the gas leak.
During the inspection, an old overhead water tank at the filter system was torn off. The damaged water tank, over 35 years old, would be cleared from the area in the coming days. At the water pumping station adjacent to Upper Lake, BMC will commission a new wastewater recycling system. Old water pumps at Karbala pumping station will also be replaced with new ones, an official said. Raw water from the Karbala pump house is sent to the Idgah Hills filtration plant, from where the water is sent to different zoned areas after purification.

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