The Hindu 10.07.2009
MCC-MSEZL accord on sewage treatment plants
Staff Correspondent
| Talks on MoU draft are in final stages: Mayor |
TAKING STOCK: Mayor M. Shankar Bhat (third from right) inspecting the compost plant at Pachchanady in Mangalore on Thursday.
MANGALORE: Mayor M. Shankar Bhat said here on Thursday that Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) and Mangalore Special Economic Zone Ltd (MSEZL) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on maintaining four new sewage treatment plants (STPs) and using of water treated at those plants.
Addressing presspersons after visiting a sewage treatment plant at Mullarakadu and the compost plant of the corporation at Pachchanady, along with the officials and councillors, he said that MSEZL had evinced interest in using the water treated at the STPs. He said that talks on preparing the draft of MoU were in the final stages.
The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) has built two STPs for the city corporation at Mullarakadu and Pachchanady. In addition, the KUIDFC is building two more STPs at Jeppinamogaru and Surathkal. The completed STPs are yet to be commissioned and handed over to the city corporation. The Mayor said that the new STPs could be commissioned only after the work of laying the underground drainage pipes (UGD) in the city was completed. Only 50 per cent of the UGD work had been completed, he said.
When the Mayor and his team visited Mullarakadu, Y. Prasad, a processing engineer there, explained to the team members that while treating the sewage water, methane gas would be generated, which could be used for generating electricity. The Mayor said that the compost plant at Pachchanady was operating well. However, the team could see that there was no roof for the room meant for storing inert materials.