BWSSB calls for tenders to provide tertiary treated water to Peenya Industrial Area

The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has floated tenders for a task to supply tertiary treated h2o to Peenya Industrial Area, said to beryllium the largest successful Asia.

The BWSSB volition supply 4 cardinal litres per time (MLD) treated h2o from the Nagasandra Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to the concern area. While the output of the STP meets the National Green Tribunal (NGT) standards, the BWSSB is each acceptable to found different tertiary attraction works to further dainty the STP output earlier supplying it to industries.

This would marque it ‘ultra pure’ and summation the acceptability among users, and its support beingness arsenic well, BWSSB Chairman V. Ram Prasath Manohar said.

The committee has precocious done a aviator task establishing a tertiary attraction works of 70 KLD capableness astatine Kadubeesanahalli STP and is deploying the aforesaid exertion astatine the Nagasandra STP. “The tertiary attraction works volition beryllium done successful a Public Private Partnership mode, for which we are looking for an perfect partner. Once we get that, it tin beryllium operationalised successful 3 to 4 months time,” Mr. Manohar said.

Meanwhile, the BWSSB volition walk an estimated ₹27 crore to laic a organisation pipeline of 27 km betwixt the Nagasandra STP and industries successful the Peenya Industrial Area and conception a Sump-cum-Pump House and an overhead vessel with 5 lakh litre capacity. This volition enactment successful spot a dual piping strategy to guarantee treated h2o to beryllium utilized for non-potable purposes and does not premix with potable water, a first-of-its-kind task successful Bengaluru.

“We are moving with the motto ‘Cauvery for Homes, Ultra Pure Treated Water for Industries’. We are consenting to spouse with different concern hubs arsenic good to supply ultra axenic treated water,” Mr. Manohar said.