Worried by the heavy waterlog witnessed around places used for car wash businesses in Umuahia and Aba metropolis, the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, Abia State Chapter, is appealing to those doing car wash business, to do more to channel the waste water used for their business appropriately.

The Institute said this has become imperative going by the heavy waterlog experienced in areas where the roads are tarred and untarred, noting that some car wash operators in these areas do little or nothing to ensure that the already existing drainages are opened up so that waste water can pass through.

Speaking at the weekend after witnessing a sordid site housing car wash operators in Umuahia the capital, the Chairman of the Institute, Town Planner Stephen Chukwudi Nwazue, said the Institute is not witch-hunting anyone, or groups, adding that its responsibility is to ensure a habitable town for all.

Tpl Nwazue who decried the activities of car wash operators in areas where the roads are not tarred, charged them to, at least collaborate with their neighbors during sanitation days and find solution to the heavy waterlog witnessed in their areas of operation.

He said those that wash cars on the tarred roads weaken the strength of the roads and also reduce the size of the road because the vehicles park along the road, urging them to channel the waste water appropriately and also avoid causing traffic within such areas.

He said this has become pertinent as "we are entering the peak of rainy season", stressing that mosquitoes breed in this areas that are waterlogged hence the need to find a permanent solution to the problem for the benefit of inhabitants of those areas.

Tpl Nwazue urged the government through the Ministry of Environment, to assist those doing car wash business with manpower, especially during sanitation days, noting that this will assist in maintaining a decent and aesthetically sound and safe city.

Source: https://newsbuka.com/2022/06/13/channel-waste-water-appropriately-abia-town-planners-to-car-wash-operators/

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