The Hindu 20.11.2009
MCC likely to take decision on sewerage by month-end
Staff Correspondent
| Sewer lines from buildings have to be connected to underground network |
The project is coming up under ADB loan
Four sewage treatment plants being set up
— Photo: R. Eswarraj 
DEVELOPMENT: Work on underground drainage under way at Kodical in Mangalore
MANGALORE: The council of the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) is likely to take a decision in its meeting to be held by this month-end on connecting sewer lines from houses and other buildings to the newly laid underground sewerage network.
This matter will be discussed in the meeting scheduled for November 30, Mayor M. Shankar Bhat told The Hindu.
The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) has completed the underground drainage (UGD) infrastructure in some parts of the city while work in some areas is under way. The sewerage is being built under a loan from the Asian Development Bank.
The KUIDFC has completed laying the network in Pachchanady area and has set up a sewage treatment plant (STP) there.
The Mayor said that the council would take a decision on how to connect the sewer lines from houses and other buildings to the network, who should connect them — corporation or property owners — and the fee to be fixed for users if the corporation were to be made responsible for the job.
According to M.K. Maninarayana, Superintending Engineer, KUIDFC, about 75 per cent of the work of laying of the new underground sewer network in the city has been completed. The KUIDFC has to lay 360 km of sewer pipes in the jurisdiction of the MCC. It has already laid 267.3 km of pipes.
It has completed building one more STP at Kavoor while two more STPs — one at Surathkal and another at Jeppinamogaru — are being set up. The four STPs will be able to process 89 MLD (million litres a day) of sewage, he said. The official said that of the 22 wells to be dug in different areas, only four had been dug and commissioned. The rest were in various stages of completion.
When all these works are complete, there would be 13,465 manholes in the jurisdiction of MCC.
The entire UGD work was expected to be completed by the end of June.
