Survey taken up on third stage of Swarna project
Rs 3 crore earmarked for construction of vented dam
The Udupi CMC is taking measures to solve drinking water woes within the city limits by implementing the third stage of Swarna River Drinking Water Project.
A sum of Rs three crore has been earmarked for constructing a vented dam at Yarlapady as part of the project.
The CMC Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak told Deccan Herald that the project has been coceived keeping in mind the growing demand for drinking water and inability of CMC to meet the demand with available water sources.
The survey work has been taken up. Once the survey is complete, the CMC will go ahead with the construction of a vented dam. The storage capacity of this dam would be 350 to 400 million gallons, he added.
Even after the implementation of the first two stages of Swarna River Drinking Water Project at Baje and Shiroor, drinking water woes continue in the city limits.
The CMC has not been able to provide adequate drinking water to all the households in the city.
There are 30,000 households in the city, of which CMC has provided water connections to about 19,350 houses. Besides, CMC has given commercial connections to 1,830 to business establishments and hostels.
The first stage of Swarna River Drinking Water Project was initiated at a cost of Rs 25 lakh in the year 1971 and second stage of the project was initiated at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore in the year 2004. The capacity of both dams is around 520 million gallons.
The capacity of water treatment plant of first stage is nine million liters per day and the second stage is around is 27.4 million liters a day.
Nayak said that an overhead tank is being built at Manipal for supplying water to the low lying areas.
The low lying areas like Saralabettu, Trishanku Nagara, Manjushri Nagara and Duglipadav were not receiving sufficient water.
Once the overhead tank is ready, then the water will be supplied to the low lying areas without any hindrance, said the CMC Commissioner.
The CMC has also decided to remove public taps to reduce the wastage of water, by end of October. There are about nine public taps in Malpe at present.
