A 48-inch pipeline burst outside the Parsi Gymkhana in Dadar on Wednesday morning causing flooding with up to three feet deep water near the Ruia College junction. The pipeline from Tansa reservoir is about 80 years old and runs six feet below ground. Traffic plying on the lane going towards Dadar from Sion had to be diverted to an internal road along the Five Gardens area in Matunga as the concrete road had to be excavated in order to locate the leakage and then fix it. The department stopped supply to the area after water started gushing out around 9 am. Around 7.30 pm on Wednesday,the hydraulic engineering department of the BMC had broken up a 15-meter long stretch of the lane,but was yet to locate the exact spot of the leakage. Deputy hydraulic engineer A S Tawadia said supply to the F North ward,comprising areas of Matunga and Sion,is likely to be affected if the leak is not fixed by Thursday morning. An official from the department said they were finding it difficult to excavate the concrete road. We have managed to dig about three big concrete slabs. It is much more difficult to find a leakage beneath a concrete road as compared to asphalt roads, he said. Meanwhile,civic body could not state the nature of damage. The nature of the leakage is not yet known. We cannot say by when the supply will be restored. Once the pipeline is exposed,the nature of the damage will be known. The staff will work overnight and complete the work. As soon as the repair work is over,water supply will be resumed, the official added.
