Water Supply

Water scarcity in Nagercoil

Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:57 administrator

The Hindu 21.04.2010

Water scarcity in Nagercoil

Staff Reporter

Nagercoil: The people in Nagercoil municipal limit were put to untold hardship, owing to inadequate supply of potable water to them.

According to sources, water is being distributed from the Mukkadal dam viz Ananthanar channel. But as the district administration has closed the release of water from the Pechipparai dam, the level in the Mukkadal dam has depleted.

The municipal administration has introduced turn system for supply of drinking water.

Meanwhile, the municipal authorities has decided to tackle water scarcity by digging bore-wells in more than 26 places in different parts of the district to ensure the supply of adequate water.

The municipal administration has started supplying potable water through water tankers for the benefit of the residents.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:01

Tiruvottiyur water scheme work soon

Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:47 administrator

The Hindu 21.04.2010

Tiruvottiyur water scheme work soon

K. Lakshmi

Piped supply long-standing demand of residents

Project worth Rs.85.11 crore sanctioned under JNNURM in 2008
Work under way to provide underground drainage network in Tiruvottiyur

CHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater is all set to issue the work order for the Tiruvottiyur piped water supply project before the end of this month. This project is a long-pending demand of the residents.

Officials of the Metrowater said the project worth Rs.85.11 crore was sanctioned under the Jawaharalal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission in 2008.

One of the reasons for the delay in awarding the contract was the poor response when bids were invited for the first time. When the tender was floated for the second time, seven bids were received and they were being scrutinised. The project is expected to take two years, an official said.

Tiruvottiyur municipal chairman R. Jayaraman said the local body, which has a population of 2.5 lakh, is expected to be supplied up to 35 million litres a day (mld) once the project is commissioned. About 50,000 house connections would be provided.

At present, the local body is able to supply only 2.5 million litres, that too, once in five days partly through street taps. It also operates 15 tankers for water supply.

The municipality would obtain loans from Tamilnadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited and Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation to meet its share of the project cost, Mr.Jayaraman said.

Water metering system may also be implemented in the area. The project would alleviate the water shortage problem in the local body, he added. Work is under way to provide underground drainage network in Tiruvottiyur. Nearly 60 per cent of the pipeline laying work has been completed.

Officials said the municipality had alloted five acres for a 27-mld capacity sewage treatment plant at Sathangadu.

Sewage from five pumping stations to be established in Tiruvottiyur would be pumped to the STP.

Though the project was sanctioned in 2004, the work began only in May 2007. Some of the reasons cited for the delay include technical snags and labour shortage.

Tiruvottiyur would get its underground drainage network in June 2012, the municipal officials said.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 04:53

Hogenakkal work to begin soon

Monday, 19 April 2010 05:27 administrator

Deccan Chronicle 19.04.2010

Hogenakkal work to begin soon

April 19th, 2010

DC Correspondent

April 18: Around 20 lakh people in Dharmapuri and Krishangiri districts are eagerly waiting the pipe-laying work for the Hogenakkal Drinking Water Scheme to start.

Locals here, who have long suffered the ill effects of fluorine in their drinking water, are hopeful that the 240-lakh litre tank will meet their requirements. Highly placed sources in the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Board (TWAD) told this newspaper that the pipe-laying work from the well on the Cauvery river-bed to the treatment plant would begin in less than a week’s time.

The scheme is a pet project of deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin and is funded largely by the Japan Bank of International Cooperation.

The 1,500 mm-diameter ‘mild steel’ pipes will be laid from the massive well on the river-bed to the treatment plant and from there to the 24 mld master balancing reservoir in Madam village. Sources said that the majority of the work of the seven-metre deep well on the roc-ky riverbed has been done as they had already reached the five-metre depth.

Following preliminary work that started in February, major work on the water treatment plant and the master-balancing reservoir that stands on 250 columns is also progressing at a rapid pace.

While the work at the intake well appears to be nearing completion before the scheduled six months, officials have also geared up to finish the treatment plant and tank works ahead of schedule.

Officials have attached op-timum priority to the project as it had earlier reached an impasse when the BJP government in Karnataka had opposed it.

Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 05:32

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