Leakage in water pipeline causes sinkhole on Kundalahalli Road
The Hindu
The BBMP and BWSSB, along with the traffic police, managed to fill up the hole later in the day
A portion of the busy Kundalahalli Road in East Bengaluru caved in on Sunday resulting in a sinkhole a few feet wide, causing traffic to pile up, until it was closed by the civic agencies later in the day.
Officials from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said that the road caved in after a water pipe leakage which led to the seepage. “There were no other issues. We have immediately filled the hole so that there will be no traffic snarls on the stretch,” officials said, adding that no untoward incidents were reported owing to the sinkhole.
BBMP officials said that sinkholes usually appear after rain or leakage in water or sewage below the road. Water leakage from a BWSSB pipeline that had loosened the soil, caused the sinkhole on Sunday, officials said.
A senior BWSSB officials said that a 450 mm Cauvery Water Main Pipeline had burst early in the morning on Sunday at Kundalahalli Gate Junction. “We have installed a new pipe since the old pipe had to be removed owing to the damage,” the official said.
Bengaluru Traffic Police officials said that the incident happened just before the Kundalahalli underpass and nothing has been damaged on the underpass. An official from HAL Traffic Police Station said, “Our officer in-charge in that sector and our staff along with civic agencies fixed the problem with help of Hitachi and now vehicle movement is normal.”
In June this year, after missing several deadlines, the underpass at Kundalahalli Junction was opened to traffic. The grade separator is part of the signal-free corridor project proposed on the Old Airport Road.
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