Ten Square at OMR- Water question

Hi:

I am a newbie here and joined only today. My relations in madras have shown me a floor plan proposed by Ten Square realtors.
This property is right on OMR.

On my request, my relations measured the water at Tensquare and the water test results show high TDS (Total dissolved solids) at a rate of 2000 to 2400. (In other words the water is very salty)

This makes this water not suitable for drinking and even for house hold methods. I was told that we can use reverse osmosis and other suitable water methods to bring down this TDS. Is that correct.. will it be possible to do that?

My question woudl be -- do you have this kind of water problems outside the city. What did people do to make the water drinkable. is it worth buying this property. Also is the water so salty all over OMR or is it localized only at this property. Any guidance woudl be very helpful.
thanks
Nithya

Nitya,

Welcome to il. do take your time to understand the forum etiquettes and guidelines.

Regarding water, in today's scenario, water is a very precious commodity and that too in south chennai. the areas you are talking of DO NOT HAVE POTABLE water. though RO works, the continous success is not proved
some do have efficient RO treatments, where the cost of the water that you get goes high, in other sense maintenance is high.
Many projects along omr, and south chennai do buy water for their construction purposes too.

You buy drinking water in cans. if the project comes in the city limits, you may get a metro water connection. since corporation limits are yet to be extended to semmenechery it is your call.

the water being salty is fine. there is an area around the marshes where the water color is almost brown with contamination.

Shanthi:

Thank you so much for your reply. I will be careful about etiquettes here. We have now decided not to go with Ten Square but instead with Purvankara Cosmo city. It is within our budget and also the water test was excellent for Cosmo City. I appreciate your reply.

Nithya

nitya,

Just out of curiosity how much was the quote for ten square.

which lab is testing. are you doing it through the branded ones??

Have you finalised provident cosmo. it is a budget project, as swanlake could not take shape as wanted and windmiere did not happen.

Shanthi:

Thanks for your reply. I am not sure where my relations tested the water. But they did test at 2 different places to make sure the results were the same and yes they were almost the same with minor differences. We know some friends who work for two different water quality companies and they helped us test the water. Also lot of friends/relatives advised me against buying ten square when you know that the water quality is not good. They advised that it was not worth the purchase even though the layout and area space was good. I think i was quoted Rs. 2650 for the Ten square property.

As for Cosmo city, yes we were aware of the problems plaquing SwanLake and Windenmere. My relations in Bangalore live in Puvankara designed flats and they vouch for the quality of the flats. They are happy. My mother saw the layout of cosmo city and she said it is good even though they dont have balconies and closed car parking.

Basically t his may serve as a investment purchase and later to a residental stay if we move to India- Chennai. If we move to other places in India, we might sell it later. Also it is affordable within our reach.

You can go to Aquaguard and ask them to test your water. That is one of the places I got the water tested.

Hope this information provides answers to your queries.
Nithya