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In an effort to fortify h2o information and trim dependence connected distant sources, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is gathering a web of decentralised freshwater attraction plants that volition root h2o from neighbourhood lakes, and proviso to surrounding areas.
The Metrowater is constructing 2 caller plants successful Perumbakkam and Mogappair, each with a capableness to dainty 10 cardinal litres of h2o a time (mld) to augment h2o proviso successful the fast-growing city. At present, Chennai has a web of 5 attraction plants with smaller capacities. The upcoming ₹15.68-crore Perumbakkam works would root h2o from Perumbakkam lake, portion the Mogappair works would gully h2o from Ayanambakkam lake, said officials.
Nearly 79% of the enactment to conception Mogappair attraction plant, coming up connected a 3,150 sq.m. site, has been completed. The ₹13.01-crore task besides includes laying a astir 7.7 km pipeline to gully h2o from Ayanambakkam lake. The enactment is expected to beryllium completed by March. Treated h2o from the works would beryllium conveyed to the organisation presumption successful Anna Nagar westbound extension.
Spread implicit 85 hectares, the Ayanambakkam water remains a cardinal root of drinking h2o and groundwater recharge for neighbouring areas, including Koladi. It is among the h2o bodies identified for restoration by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.
M.K. Jayakumar, a nonmigratory of Ayanambakkam, said groundwater is disposable astatine a extent of 30 feet successful the country arsenic the water retains h2o for astir months of the year. The Tiruverkadu municipality has besides sunk borewells adjacent the water to proviso drinking water.
With flat complexes mushrooming, the h2o array is depleting. The water and its proviso transmission indispensable beryllium rejuvenated and boating thrust could beryllium introduced, helium said.
Officials said the decentralised h2o proviso strategy would assistance rationalise h2o proviso to conscionable the city’s increasing needs. Such a strategy was indispensable to trim pumping and energy outgo and chopped transmission losses by 20%.
Five lakes successful Porur, Retteri, Ayanambakkam, Perungudi, and Perumbakkam person been converted into drinking h2o sources. The h2o bureau is studying the feasibility of tapping much h2o bodies to grow the decentralised proviso network, officials said.
