The Hindu 08.07.2016
Mettupalayam to get UGD
Mettupalayam Municipality a few days ago passed the
resolution that will help the town get an underground sewerage system
and stop flow of sewage into River Bhavani. According to municipal
chairman D. Satheesh Kumar, the civic body will implement the scheme at
over Rs. 80 crore in all the 33 wards.
The civic body
had prepared the underground drainage (UGD) project keeping in mind the
sewage to be generated in 2047 and the then population – 9.40 million
litres a day and 8.36 lakh people respectively.
The
implementation of the UGD project would not only help the Mettupalayam
Municipality but also a number of local bodies that were dependent on
River Bhavani as their water source.
At present, the town generated four to five million litres sewage a day at 110 litres per capita a day basis.
Mr.
Kumar said that the civic body would take up the project with help from
an international funding agency and the State Government. Its
contribution would be around Rs. 9 crore. The Municipality would lay
75,642 km pipelines and built 3,169 manholes. It would also build seven
lifting stations and provide connection to 12,000 households.
The
collected water would reach the sewage treatment plant that the
Municipality would build on the land housing the municipal compost yard.
It would go in for the modified sequential batch reactor technology.
The
chairman added that the civic body also decided on the one-time deposit
and monthly charges. The deposit would vary from Rs. 5,000 to Rs.
12,500 depending on the size of the establishment and water consumption
and the monthly fee would vary from Rs. 100 to Rs. 160.