Harvard bund in danger

Kolonnawa Group corr.

Gothatuwa: The Harvard Bund at Gothatuwa built by British Colonial rulers to protect the Colombo City and its environs from the flood waters of the Kelani Ganga is in danger of breaching at several points if a major flood in the magnitude of the floods of the 1940 and 50 decades occur again.

During the early period the Irrigation Department deployed watchers for the security of the bund. Now indiscriminate filling and construction work in the adjoining paddy fields and plying of heavy vehicles along the bund have posed a grave threat to the stability of the bund structure. This should engage the urgent attention of the relevant authorities.