Residents oppose sewage treatment plant near Madambakkam lake

On March 1, close to 200 residents of Madambakkam attended a protest meeting, one furthering the goals of the Save Madambakkam Lake movement. They urged the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation to drop the plan to establish a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in the vicinity of Madambakkam Lake.

Brigadier (retired) Mohan Thomas, a social activist, who took part in the meeting, says, “The STP should be commissioned far away from the crowded localities and not near the Madambakkam lake. A waterbody must receive fresh rainwater and not treated water.”