Karachi (HRNW) The flooding in monsoon rains escalated Karachi’s crisis to the point that the army has been called in to undertake the Herculean task of cleaning its Aegean stables, otherwise referred to as its nullahs.
It rained in three spells, roughly 63mm to 86mm in less than an hour July 26 onwards. The city’s natural stormwater drains can only take up to 30mm. These drains have been clogged with garbage or buried under buildings as the city expanded. As a result, when it rains, the water just floods neighbourhoods instead of being drained into the sea.
The Sindh government, Corps V, NDMA and FWO has assigned the Frontier Works Organisation, a military engineering organization, to remove the sludge from the three major nullahs of the city: Gujjar, CBM and Korangi.
This was decided with Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah Friday.
The FWO will clean both sides of Shahra-e-Faisal’s stormwater drains along with the points where they choke such as FTC, Nursery, Gulshan-e-Zafar, Tipu Sultan Road, Karsaz, Drigh Road, Star Gate. Sludge will be dumped at the Jam Chakro landfill and Treatment Plant-1.
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