Bengaluru: Four truckloads — and counting — of Bengaluru’s household and industrial garbage. That’s the amount of muck scooped up from Vrishabhavathi stream and its feeder canals after a night of heavy rain in Bengaluru and its suburbs.That’s the kind of waste — industrial packaging material, plastic items, textile waste and whatnot — thrown into canals or streams recklessly by Bengalureans without sparing a thought for the kind of devastation it would unleash downstream.After heavy inflow triggered by near-record rainfall, Vrishabhavathi was in spate Monday and Tuesday. Overflowing waters carried several truckloads of waste, dumping it in downstream villages near Bidadi, an industrial suburb just 30km from Bengaluru.While the overflowing Vrishabhavathi did not face much obstruction within city limits, it did trigger chaos downstream around Bidadi town and its industrial pockets. Several truckloads of garbage, comprising thermocol material, single-use plastic items like PET bottles, and leather, were found dumped around Chikkakuntanahalli village. The stinking garbage dump was so huge it piled up against the bridge across Vrishabhavathi and cut off access to Kanakapura Road from the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway.Distressed villagers gathered in large numbers on the overflowing riverbank and demanded that the waste pile be cleared immediately.“There were 3-4 truckloads of garbage left behind on the road and adjacent vacant land of our village. The entire Bengaluru’s filth gets dumped in our village whenever the rivulet floods, and nobody bothers to clear it up. For months, we have to put up with this trash,” complained a villager.Another resident said: “The 35-year-old bridge has already developed cracks. With the garbage pile-up, water will further seep into the cracks and damage the bridge. Had officials regulated garbage disposal upstream, this wouldn’t have happened in our village limits.” As the garbage mound blocked the access roads, Byramangala panchayat officials deployed a backhoe to clear the trash. The debris was pushed aside to the nearby vacant land, and authorities are said to have assured the villagers they would clear it once the water level in the rivulet recedes.