[RiversEdge]

This is the moment an overhead water tank came crashing down in Sarengi area of Bankura, West Bengal in India.

The tank was commissioned in 2016 and came crashing down after its foundation gave away.

The video captured on January 22 around 3 PM shows the dramatic collapsing of the water tank which crashed on a nearby building as water splashed in the nearby fields.

The panicked villagers ran in fear as soon as the beam of the tank gave away under the pressure.





The water supplies of at least 15 villages that were linked to the water tank have been disrupted for now. No one was injured in the incident.

One of the officials said: "People of 15 villages were supplied water from the tank that was commissioned in 2016. It had a capacity of 7 lakh (70,000 litres)."

The construction agency that had built the tank had a 5-year-contract and they will rebuild it as it had given away in merely under 5 years of the contract period.

It is being said that the locals had already noticed cracks on the pillar and had informed the authorities several times but it fell on deaf ears in spite of the numerous complaints by the villagers.

[kellyhound]

911 call

[rohmell]

Mr. RiversEdge,
I most certainly enjoy your editing of the videos that you post here on DR. The musical "commentary" to this video was most amusing. Allow me to reiterate my appreciation for your time and effort in bringing these videos to us.

[Bleed]

*700,000 Litres.
Lakh = 100,000.

[bladesman123]

That was quite spectacular

[murofhsirgo]

lost opportunity to catch the only wave in that area in 300,000,000 years

[K53]

Another quality construction job

[gringo1965]

Nice example how stupid they are.

[1776]

Originally Posted by gringo1965 ↗

Nice example how stupid they are.

Greed and corruption with a side of stupidity. My first suspicion would be faulty concrete because someone wanted to save money they put a far weaker grade of concrete in the truck than the engineers had called for, less cement + more aggregate = cheaper to make. On the concrete apartment towers we built in USA each and every batch of concrete was sampled and sent to the lab for testing and nothing was built above that concrete until the test sample had cured sufficiently and been proofed by the lab. If we got a bad batch of concrete it would have been a huge pain to remove those parts of the structure days after pouring but the concrete plant knew we were testing so they never tried any funny business to squeeze another few dollars of profit.

[CatBatMan]

Well no wonder it collapsed! There was a ridiculously powerful earthquake in the moments immediately before it happened.