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Re-scheduling is for distress-sharing: Mayor

Friday, 28 May 2010 04:32 administrator
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The Hindu     28.05.2010

Re-scheduling is for distress-sharing: Mayor

Special Correspondent

Need to exercise caution over water position

Supply to come down till monsoon fills up dam

COIMBATORE: A day after the Coimbatore Corporation announced that it would supply drinking water under the Siruvani scheme only once in four days from June 1, Mayor R. Venkatachalam said on Thursday that the crisis in one part of the city called for distress-sharing on the part of the other.

Balance

While the need to exercise caution over the water position was one reason, the other was that a balance had to be struck in the supply to two sections of the city that got water under two different schemes.

“There is no justification in one section getting water only once in 10 or 15 days and the other on alternate days,” the Mayor pointed out.

“We need to restrict supply in the Siruvani-served areas also in order to avoid any scarcity. The once-in-four-days supply is required till the monsoon fills up Siruvani Dam,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board said the supply of drinking water under the Pilloor scheme was stopped on Thursday to plug leaks in the supply line from the water tank at Vilankurichi near the city to Sulur and a few other areas.

No supply

A press release from the board said the supply would not be made on Friday also to Sulur, Pongalu, Sulthanpet, Madukkarai Union, Palladam and some other town panchayats.

The supply would resume on Saturday, the release said.

Last Updated on Friday, 28 May 2010 04:53
 

Corporation to expedite work on water scheme

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:22 administrator
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The Hindu       26.05.2010

Corporation to expedite work on water scheme

Special Correspondent

Work on 33 overhead tanks progressing at a fast pace

TIRUCHI: Even while work on the various components of the Rs.169-crore drinking water supply augmentation scheme for the city is under way, officials of the Tiruchi Corporation are pulling all the stops to commission the collector wells of the project, coming up on the Coleroon river, at the earliest.

Civic officials are planning to make the collector wells operational and pump the water through the existing network, even before the other components of the new scheme were complete.

Three infiltration wells were being sunk on the Coleroon bed at Melur near Srirangam. Each of these wells would tap about 31 million litres a day (MLD). The new scheme will tap about 58.60 MLD immediately on completion and 93.26 MLD in the ultimate stage in 2039. Currently, a major portion of the city's water requirement, about 86 MLD, is tapped from the Cauvery river.

The project, financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), would increase the per capita drinking water supply to 135 litres a day and ensure equitable distribution to all parts of the city.

“We are planning to pump water from the Collector Well 3 to the Corporation sump at Ayyalamman Padithurai near Cauvery and link it to the existing network of overhead tanks and distribution mains. We hope to do this by July end,” Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy told The Hindu on Tuesday. According to officials, about 80 per cent of the work on the collector well has been completed.

Work is being expedited to get the collector well commissioned in time for Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi's next visit by July-end or August. Transport Minister K.N.Nehru has already indicated that the Chief Minister would inaugurate/commission various development projects in the district, including the completed components of the new water scheme.

Meanwhile, work on construction of 33 out of the 35 overhead tanks (OHTs) under the new scheme was fast under way in various parts of the city. The city is currently supplied water through 54 OHTs. Additional distribution mains have been proposed for a total stretch of over 262 km under the new scheme. The project has been split into eight major packages such as laying of distribution mains, improvements to existing line and construction of overhead tanks.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:23
 

Corporation to expedite work on water scheme

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 05:42 administrator
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The Hindu      26.05.2010

Corporation to expedite work on water scheme

Special Correspondent

Work on 33 overhead tanks progressing at a fast pace

TIRUCHI: Even while work on the various components of the Rs.169-crore drinking water supply augmentation scheme for the city is under way, officials of the Tiruchi Corporation are pulling all the stops to commission the collector wells of the project, coming up on the Coleroon river, at the earliest.

Civic officials are planning to make the collector wells operational and pump the water through the existing network, even before the other components of the new scheme were complete.

Three infiltration wells were being sunk on the Coleroon bed at Melur near Srirangam. Each of these wells would tap about 31 million litres a day (MLD). The new scheme will tap about 58.60 MLD immediately on completion and 93.26 MLD in the ultimate stage in 2039. Currently, a major portion of the city's water requirement, about 86 MLD, is tapped from the Cauvery river.

The project, financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), would increase the per capita drinking water supply to 135 litres a day and ensure equitable distribution to all parts of the city.

“We are planning to pump water from the Collector Well 3 to the Corporation sump at Ayyalamman Padithurai near Cauvery and link it to the existing network of overhead tanks and distribution mains. We hope to do this by July end,” Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy told The Hindu on Tuesday. According to officials, about 80 per cent of the work on the collector well has been completed.

Work is being expedited to get the collector well commissioned in time for Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi's next visit by July-end or August. Transport Minister K.N.Nehru has already indicated that the Chief Minister would inaugurate/commission various development projects in the district, including the completed components of the new water scheme.

Meanwhile, work on construction of 33 out of the 35 overhead tanks (OHTs) under the new scheme was fast under way in various parts of the city. The city is currently supplied water through 54 OHTs. Additional distribution mains have been proposed for a total stretch of over 262 km under the new scheme. The project has been split into eight major packages such as laying of distribution mains, improvements to existing line and construction of overhead tanks.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 05:43
 
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