{"id":91915,"date":"2019-08-03T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91915"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:19:29","slug":"flood-gates-and-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/03\/flood-gates-and-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood gates and pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Floor gates pumps and pollution is the subject, everyone, is talking about <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If at all SLLDC could protect the 1000acres of flood \u00a0retention area which was identified under the Canal Development Project, we would not have to install any flood gates or pumps <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time during nineties canal all canal Banks \u00a0were cleared and encroachers were relocated And yet subsequently various ministers Influenced SlLRDC to keep their eyes closed when scrupulous landowners and developers filled over 400 acres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we are lamenting about annual flooding and the people who have either encroached or who did not follow the minimum mean sea level which they should have maintained during construction are now complaining<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am repeating that pumping Kelani water which becomes salty during the drought which \u00a0flows towards Ambatale will bring more saltwater into the hinterland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Dutch and British times Muthrajawela was constructed not only for transportation but also to drain saltwater from Muthurajawela rice fields, which was a very fertile paddy land<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Muthurajwela has become a marsh Now same European nations are pushing us to pump Seawater into the city<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will deteriorate building foundations and quality of\nsome drinking water from wells in the town&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mammoth two-way pumps are selected for fresh water, but they will not last long due to seawater<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you pump Kelani water downstream of Ambatale water intake more and more seawater will flow upstream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon we may drink seawater like fish <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr sarath obeysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath obeysekera Floor gates pumps and pollution is the subject, everyone, is talking about If at all SLLDC could protect the 1000acres of flood \u00a0retention area which was identified under the Canal Development Project, we would not have to install any flood gates or pumps At that time during nineties canal all canal Banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}