Private housing schemes asked to arrange for rainwater disposal

[Lahore_Real_Estate]

AFTER its failure to drain water from several residential localities of the provincial metropolis, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has started shifting the responsibility of draining rainwater from private housing schemes. A high level meeting chaired by Director General LDA at Wasa head office was held on Sunday in which representatives of private housing schemes were also present. During the meeting, DG LDA made it clear that if a private housing society had not paid trunk infrastructure charges and maintenance charges to Wasa then clearance of rainwater from it was not the responsibility of Wasa. He asked the societies to immediately pay these charges to Wasa to avoid future inconvenience and said that in future no housing society could lay down its sewage system without the approval of Wasa and LDA.

According to Wasa record, out of 208 private housing societies, only 100 societies are not linked with Wasa’s trunk sewer system, he said, adding Wasa was providing technical assistance to these societies. He revealed that 40 schemes were without trunk sewer while Wasa was not providing any technical assistance to them while 24 schemes were draining out their sewer and rainwater through Wasa’s system.

Meanwhile, muggy weather continued to prevail in the provincial capital on Sunday and high humidity level forced majority of the people to remain indoor. Daily MET office report said maximum temperature recorded in the city was 36.2 C while minimum was 28.5 C. Humidity level in the morning was 82 percent and in evening it was 60 percent. MET officials said a well marked low had developed over North of Bay of Bengal while a weak seasonal low lay over Balochistan and adjoining areas. They predicted fairly widespread thunderstorm and rains with heavy falls at isolated places over the country during the next 72 hours. They further said that mainly humid and dry weather were expected over most parts of the country.