Alandur gets Krishna water

By S. Shanker

CHENNAI, SEPT. 23. The long-awaited Krishna water has reached Alandur. The local body is receiving about five lakh litres a day from the Metrowater mains and officials say they have been assured regular supply.

With a depleting ground water table at the Palar headworks, the municipality has been receiving about 25 LLD against a regular supply of 55 to 60 LLD (lakh litres per day) during the last two months. The local body took the initiative along with other local bodies served by the Alandur-Pallavaram Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme to instal generators at the headworks and booster stations to ensure that the water supply did not derail due to power interruptions.

The municipal chairman, Mr. R. S. Bharati, said the supply could not be channellised into the 70-lakh litre ground level sump in New Street as the quantity was too low for the tank's storage. The Metrowater supply has been regulated and let into the water mains for redistribution.

Proposals were formulated last year to provide the local body with one LLD and the policy makers even decided that the local body could switch to Metrowater supply in December.

Under the scheme the local body was assured about 10 million litres per day of metrowater, according to Mr. Bharathi.

The local body has a 130 km distribution network served by five storage tanks, with a total capacity of 62 lakh litres, to serve an estimated population of 1.65 lakhs. The daily per capita supply is estimated to be 37.57 litres.

The seven million litre underground tank was constructed at a cost of Rs. 6.65 crores and the project was designed to benefit Alandur, St. Thomas Mount, Cowl Bazaar, Meenambakkam, Pammal and Pozhichalur in the first phase.

`Test supply' commenced on September 16 and Alandur residents were requested to drain off receipt as it carried the accumulated dust and dirt in the network.

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