<p class="title">The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is installing sewage quality monitoring systems to get real-time information on effluent from the Tertiary Treatment Plants (TTPs) at the city’s two prime lung spaces, Lalbagh and Cubbon Park.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The monitoring system will give data on pollutants in the treated water.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Much of the treated water goes toward watering the plants in both the parks, since the board supplies just a third of the actual requirement. The parks have TTPs with extended aeration. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The probes (sensors) are fixed at the outlet - the point where the treated water passes through the parks’ TTP systems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lalbagh’s TTP has 4 MLD (Million Litres Per Day) capacity, while the Cubbon Park’s TTP has 1.5 MLD capacity. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The probes measure various parameters and offer a list of pollutants in the treated water. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) technical team will get the data every 15 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The parameters include pH, temperature, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), dissolved oxygen, ammonia content and others.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">No manual process</p>.<p class="bodytext">The online system would obviate the existing manual process where lab reporters collect the samples and test them –a process that takes nearly five days to complete.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BWSSB has called the tenders and the monitoring system will be in place in some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) had control of the Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) and the TTPs until a few years ago before the BWSSB took over. Both Lalbagh and Cubbon Park need 1.5 MLD of water for their plants. </p>
<p class="title">The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is installing sewage quality monitoring systems to get real-time information on effluent from the Tertiary Treatment Plants (TTPs) at the city’s two prime lung spaces, Lalbagh and Cubbon Park.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The monitoring system will give data on pollutants in the treated water.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Much of the treated water goes toward watering the plants in both the parks, since the board supplies just a third of the actual requirement. The parks have TTPs with extended aeration. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The probes (sensors) are fixed at the outlet - the point where the treated water passes through the parks’ TTP systems.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lalbagh’s TTP has 4 MLD (Million Litres Per Day) capacity, while the Cubbon Park’s TTP has 1.5 MLD capacity. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The probes measure various parameters and offer a list of pollutants in the treated water. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) technical team will get the data every 15 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The parameters include pH, temperature, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), dissolved oxygen, ammonia content and others.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">No manual process</p>.<p class="bodytext">The online system would obviate the existing manual process where lab reporters collect the samples and test them –a process that takes nearly five days to complete.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BWSSB has called the tenders and the monitoring system will be in place in some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) had control of the Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) and the TTPs until a few years ago before the BWSSB took over. Both Lalbagh and Cubbon Park need 1.5 MLD of water for their plants. </p>