Monsoon at doorstep, but rainwater harvesting pits defunct in upscale colonies

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Gurgaon: Out of the 26 rainwater harvesting systems in three major residential colonies of the city, none were found to be functional during the check carried out by the team of district administration and department of town and country planning on Monday.
The team observed that the RWH pits had stagnant water and waste accumulated causing further pollution to the groundwater. “These pits require intensive cleaning and maintenance for proper functioning,” a team member said.
District town planner (enforcement) RS Batth, who is also the nodal officer for rainwater harvesting in the city, conducted surveys in three colonies — Malibu Towne in Sector 47, Mayfield Garden in Sector 50 and Ansal Esencia in Sector 67. During the survey, it was found that the societies have not implemented the guidelines up to the required standards of cleaning and functionality. The builders and RWAs have been asked to comply with the rules to make their rainwater harvesting systems functional, he said.
According to Haryana Building Code, 2017, all housing societies have to ensure that rainwater harvesting structures are maintained and repaired for storing water for non-potable purposes in an effort to recharge groundwater.
Crucial for recharging groundwater and averting a water crisis during the scorching summer months, rainwater harvesting pits are the need of the hour, a senior MCG official said. “Our objective is to ensure that the maximum amount of rainwater can be conserved during the monsoon season,” he added.
In the past two years, however, the corporation had failed to repair defunct rainwater harvesting systems before the monsoon and therefore rainwater could not be conserved, sources said.
The directive issued by DTCP said that the provisions and conditions of the rainwater harvesting system should be imposed while getting approval of building plans and occupation certificates. Two years back, Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) had announced that only those buildings which have functional rainwater harvesting wells will be given occupation certificates. The norms said that all plots measuring around 200 square yards and above should have functional rain harvesting pits.
Though the departments issue occupation certificates to hundreds of properties every month, there is no record of the properties that were issued OCs without physical verification of rainwater harvesting sites.
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