The Hindu 29.10.2013
Centre approves water supply scheme
The residents of 60 Wards of the Coimbatore Corporation
have good news from the civic body: they will soon get drinking water on
a daily basis.
For, the Union Government approved on Monday the corporation’s Rs.-451.60 crore scheme, said G. Latha, Corporation Commissioner.
She told
The Hindu
that the corporation planned to use the money to replace the water
supply pipelines in the city as they were old and unfit to meet the
current needs. The old city area has water supply lines for 1,375km.
The
funding for the project would be along the lines of the Jawaharlal
Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission ones — 50 per cent from the Union
Government, 20 per cent from the State Government and the rest from the
urban local body that is the beneficiary — in this case, the Coimbatore
Corporation.
Ms. Latha said that the Coimbatore
Corporation would go in for soft loan to meet its share of the project —
Rs. 135.48 crore, as the amount was huge and the corporation could not
afford it without external help. Once the corporation replaced the
pipelines — the project was estimated to take 29 months from the date of
the start of work — it would supply 135 litres per capita a day. And
that supply would be scientific.
The corporation
would automate the entire supply system. The valves would be automated
and the water flow would be computerised. The water pressure management
too would be automatic.
Likewise, the corporation
would install automatic meters to record water consumption. In the
implementation of the scheme, the corporation would also lay a feeder
main supply line for 105km, construct 29 storage reservoirs, and two
treatment plants.
But the sources of the water supply
would remain the same — the Siruvani water supply scheme and the
Dedicated Pilloor Drinking Water Supply Scheme or Pilloor-II. From the
two water supply schemes the corporation got around 250 million litres a
day.
For the added areas, the corporation had
started a similar project — to replace the pipelines and lay new ones to
supply drinking water. The project was aimed at making the added areas
on a par with the old city area in terms of water supply.
Citizens to get 135 litres of drinking water a day
It will take 29 months to replace pipelines
Automatic meters to record water consumption
Added areas not covered under the scheme
