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Metrowater offers supply to water-starved Alandur

By S.Shanker

CHENNAI Aug.1 . With the scare that the Alandur Pallavaram combined water supply scheme would run dry within a month in the absence of rain, the Alandur town has been offered 50 lakh litres a day (LLD) of Metrowater supply from August 1.

Simultaneously, the local body has been told that it would be de-linked from the Palar river water scheme. Alandur receives about 35 LLD of Palar water and about five to 10 LLD of metrowater. During normal times, the Palar scheme provides 65 LLD for the town.

The combined water supply scheme serving the local bodies of the city's southern suburbs used to provide over 180 LLD. With the water level in the wells, at the headworks at Pazhayaseevaram and Vengudi standing at 0.7 metres, the Board has curtailed pumping to a single motor operation and also gone in for deepening of the wells. The supply during the last few weeks had come down to about 130 LLD as a couple of wells had gone dry. Frequent power interruptions too affected supply, though generators have been installed at the headworks and pumping stations en-route.

Sources in TWAD said they had been instructed to carry out inter-connectivity work to ensure that the Tambaram town is served by the combined water supply scheme in a couple of days. Supply from Maraimalai Nagar was channelised to the town after the water level at the Villiambakkam headworks of the Tambaram project dropped sharply, reducing supply from about 45 LLD to 20 LLD.

Meanwhile, refuting claims that 10 LLD is being supplied to the town, Tambaram municipal officials say they were getting only three to four LLD and that too only once in three days from Maraimalai Nagar.

The Alandur council, which met has rejected metrowater supply.

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