A portion of the roof of the Yadavagiri water reservoir collapsed on the night of 26-5-13. Till now no repairs have been done. It is not clear if Vani Vilasa Water Works even know that the roof has collapsed. It may be remembered that a portion of the roof of the same reservoir collapsed on 26-4-11 and repair was started only after photos of the damaged roof appeared in the papers. Corrugated sheets were placed over the opening left by the roof collapse as seen in the photo. Another section of the same roof collapsed on 22-7-11 and its repair can be seen in the top right side of the circular reservoir.
MGP had complained that these repairs were a temporary solution at best. The entire roof needs to be replaced before other sections of the roof collapse causing possible loss of life. It is seen in the photo that there are white stripes painted all over the roof. It appears that these stripes are attempts to fill in cracks in the roof. The photo shows that the roof has broken off just along these stripes indicating that there were cracks underneath the stripes. Since there are stripes all over the tank roof, it is likely that there are cracks everywhere. If the entire roof is not replaced, more and more cracks will get wider and more and more sections of the roof will collapse as it happened in Vijayanagar Central Storage Reservoir. The collapsed section of the roof needs to be covered immediately since the water coming from KRS still has a lot of sediment even after filtering and with sunlight streaming into the reservoir through the collapsed roof, there will be an explosion of algae population. This will in turn breed dangerous bacteria. Also, as it happened when the roof of the Vijayanagar CRS collapsed, pigeons will start nesting inside the reservoir and we will soon have dead pigeons in the water being supplied as drinking water to Mysoreans.
Dwarkanath Narayan, Mysore Grahakara Parishat
(Earlier reports on Yadavagiri water reservoir 1, 2, 3)
(Earlier reports on Yadavagiri water reservoir 1, 2, 3)