ORDER

1. In this Original Application (OA), grievance of the applicant is against laying of an underground sewage pipeline through the residential area of Village Ghaso Khana, Tehsil Maur, District Bathinda.

2. Applicant alleges that respondents are proceeding to lay the sewer line parallel to drinking water pipeline, therefore, this physical proximity of untreated pipeline to drinking water source may give rise to imminent risk of intermixing on account of leakage, bursting, pipe corrosion, poor maintenance etc.

3. In the OA, applicant has prayed for following reliefs:

“a. Direct the Respondents to permanently injunct from commissioning the sewerage pipeline laid through the internal roads, abadi area, and residential portions of Village GhasoKhana, in order to prevent contamination of groundwater and protect the health and environment of the village residents;

b. Direct the Respondents to re-align the sewerage pipeline along a feasible and environmentally safer route, such as the originally proposed alignment along the Bathinda-Mansa main road or the alternative route parallel to the railway line, which bypasses the residential zone and avoids proximity to drinking water pipelines;

c.