GVMC chief orders daily water quality tests

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Greater Visakhapatnam MunicipalCorporation (GVMC) Commissioner, Ketan Garg has directed the h2o proviso engineers to amended the attraction of each h2o proviso pumping stations nether the GVMC limits and to guarantee that regular h2o prime tests are conducted.

Mr. Garg inspected the 10 MGD capableness pumping presumption located astatine Sundarayya Colony astatine Gajuwaka, on with GVMC Chief Engineer P.V.V. Satyanarayana Raju connected Tuesday.

During inspection, the Commissioner archetypal visited each sections of the pumping station, and reviewed the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, pump cognition system, powerfulness power room, h2o attraction plant, and the h2o proviso pumping presumption maps. Later, engineering officials gave a elaborate presumption astir the h2o inflow, output aft filtration, its quality, and the wide drinking h2o proviso process for Gajuwaka.

Mr. Garg emphasised connected conducting h2o prime tests arsenic per the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). He said that regular samples indispensable beryllium collected and sent to laboratories, and the results indispensable beryllium decently recorded successful the applicable registers.

During the visit, S.E. Yedukondalu suggested that establishing an in-house laboratory would alteration contiguous appraisal of h2o prime parameters. The Commissioner directed the Chief Engineer to hole proposals for establishing a afloat equipped laboratory. He besides instructed the Chief Engineer to wage peculiar attraction to h2o complaint collections.

After the programme, Mr Garg inspected the 80-feet main roadworthy successful Akkayyapalem and instructed the Town Planning officials to expedite the issuance of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) related to the properties affected by the roadworthy widening.

Published - November 18, 2025 08:21 p.m. IST

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