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FAISALABAD, Aug 19 (APP):The Water & Sanitation Agency (WASA) has made its channel-IV operational for sewerage after repairing its collapsed area.
Managing Director WASA Aamer Aziz said here on Monday that the outer wall of channel-IV situated at Ahmad Nagar Colony collapsed due to heavy rains which caused severe problems for the system. However, WASA staff took this challenge on a war-footing and complete repair of the collapsed area urgently.
He also visited the site and said that the wall of the channel had collapsed due to removal of earth because area people of Ahmad Nagar, etc. stole it. A complaint has been submitted in the police station against the accused while further action was under progress.
He said that seven disposal stations were linked with channel-IV and now all these stations were made functional.
He said that channel-IV was facilitating the disposal stations of Ahmad Nagar, Elahi Abad, D-Type Colony, Satiana Road and its peripheral localities. WASA has laid a steel pipe in the repaired area of channel-IV because the spell of monsoon rains was expected to continue till September 15, he added.
Deputy Director Admin Shoaib Rasheed, Director Drainage Usman Zia, Assistant Director Owais Ali and others were also present on the occasion.