The Hindu 26.12.2013
TWAD Board to improve water supply in added areas
Within the next two months, the Tamil Nadu Water Supply
and Drainage Board will improve water supply to Thudiyalur, Chinna
Vedampatty, Saravanampatty, Kalapatti and Vellakinaru – areas that
recently merged with the Coimbatore Corporation.
According
to sources in the TWAD Board, the organisation was in the final stages
of completing the scheme to improve and augment water supply to not only
the aforementioned areas but also a number of wayside habitations and
the Palladam Municipality, all of which enjoy water under the Pilloor I
combined drinking water supply scheme.
The Board
would utilise the 65 MLD (million litres a day) water it would get from
the Coimbatore Corporation, which would surrender the same as it had
implemented and commissioned a dedicated drinking water supply scheme.
The
sources said that with the Board supplying water to the aforementioned
Corporation areas, the supply would increase from 70 to 135 LPCD (litres
per capita a day). Likewise, it would also increase the supply from 70 –
135 LPCD to 16 of the 23 town panchayats that were covered under the
scheme and also to the Palladam Municipality.
The
increase in water supply to the Municipality would make it eligible for
the implementation of underground sewerage system as 135 LPCD was
required to meet the minimum self cleansing velocity required.
The
Board, in the process of augmenting the supply under the scheme, had
also included 442 village habitations to take the total habitations
covered to 965. To each of the village habitations, it would serve water
at 40 LPCD.
But to convey the water to the wayside
habitations and Palladam Municipality, the Board would require another
seven – eight months as it would have to take the new pipeline alongside
the National Highway after seeking the Central Government’s permission.
Even
as it went about implementing the scheme, the Board had started
commissioning the supply of water in the areas close to source – S.S.
Kulam Town Panchayat, village habitations in the S.S. Kulam Panchayat
Union, Periyanaickenpalayam and a few other areas.
Programmes
The
sources added that the Board implemented the scheme at Rs. 224.92 crore
with funds under the Minimum Need Programme, National Rural Drinking
Water Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the
Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns
schemes.
