Pipe-laying works for supply of Godavari drinking water to the city are in full swing and, if all goes as per plan, residents of surrounding circles of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) may start benefiting from the project by December, 2013 reported Times.
Alwal would be the first GHMC circle to get Godavari water, which would traverse 186 kms from Yellampally (Karimnagar) barrage. Subsequently, Qutubullapur, Rajendranagar, Kukatpally, Serilingampally, Kapra and Malkajgiri circles and the Secunderabad Cantonment would get Godavari water treated at the Ghanpur mega balancing reservoir.
On Thursday, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) took mediapersons to Kukunurpally and Mallaram of Medak district (around 100 kms from the city) to show them the progress of the ongoing Godavari drinking water project (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Hyderabad Sujala Sravanthi Scheme).
Speaking to newsmen at Mallaram, HMWS&SB director-projects M Satyanarayana said of 186 km length pipeline, the Water Board had pipeline of nearly 76 kms. Due to delay in land acquisition, the project was getting delayed.
At Mallaram, works on the water treatment plant (WTP) with a capacity to treat 775 million litres a day (MLD) are in full swing. Expected to be completed by June, 2013, the Rs 132-crore Mallaram WTP would be the biggest in the country superseding
Delhi WTP (700 MLD capacity).
Under the Godavari drinking water project phase-I, the HMWS&SB would draw 172 MGD (10 TMC) of water from the Yellampally barrage at a cost of Rs 3,375 crore.
“We need 1,800 acres land for Godavari drinking water project phase-I. So far, we have acquired around 1,600 acres and the discussions are one for transfer of the remaining 200 acres by land acquisition officers of Medak, Rangareddy and Karimnagar districts. Efforts are on to acquire another 300 acres of forest land for the project. We have asked collectors of three districts to identify revenue land in their respective jurisdictions in lieu of the forest land,” Satyanarayana said.
Intake well works proposed at the Yellampally barrage, where pumping of water from Godavari would take place, are also in full swing. These works are likely to be completed by May, 2013.
“As per our plan, we are aiming to supply Godavari water to the city by December 2013,” the official replied.