KOLKATA: A scheduled shutdown of water supply to north and central Kolkata on Saturday has unexpectedly become a race towards time for KMC with two breaches showing in major supply traces within the belt and the civic frame launching a coordinated effort to carry out those upkeep on that very day.
While the shutdown had to start with been deliberate to take away a Raj-era pipeline at Raja Subodh Mullick Square in order that a ventilation shaft-cum-emergency exit for the East-West Metro line may also be constructed, KMC water division officials are now trying to capitalize on the shutdown to carry out the twin upkeep in supply pipelines at Nilmoni Mitra Road off Cossipore railway tracks and Chittaranjan Avenue close to Ram Mandir.
The two pipelines that supply filtered water are lifeline to huge spaces of north and central Kolkata and want to be repaired at the earliest. The civic government have formed a crack team for the repair and removal of major water pipes as civic engineers and workers attempt to coordinate the task in the sort of method that the entirety is completed in lower than 24 hours and supply restored on Sunday. Both the Palta water treatment plant and Tallah water reservoir might be shut after the morning supply on Saturday and resume best on Sunday morning.
“All supply traces in north and central Kolkata will move dry at 9.30am on Saturday. The supply will resume at 6.30am on Sunday,” an reliable said.
The process at Cossipore is a huge problem for the reason that a bit of the 60-inch diameter pipe runs immediately below the railway tracks. The pipeline is 30ft below the outside. “We won’t be capable to get anywhere close to the breached part of the main pipeline located below the railway tracks. We have deliberate to head down 30 ft to get to a brick sewer line which runs parallel to the water supply line. We will then get started repairing this pipe after water supply from Tallah is stopped. It is a precision process and needs to be finished on time,” said a KMC water supply division reliable.
Similarly, attaining the 24-inch pipeline 20-feet below Chittaranjan Avenue is not any much less a problem as a sand mattress created at the time of north-south Metro construction is proving a hurdle. “We have attempted to succeed in the pipeline that got breached a few days ago but failed. Every time we predict we've got virtually reached there, the sand slips via and covers the section. Progress is, due to this fact, sluggish. We have now used a wood peg to plug the breach. But the section needs to be correctly repaired with a gentle steel cap,” the reliable said.
Removal of a defunct 35-inch water pipe at Raja Subodh Mullick Square might be similarly tough as KMC engineers will want to exercise excessive caution and ensure its removal does not breach different major water pipelines that run parallelly underground.
While the shutdown had to start with been deliberate to take away a Raj-era pipeline at Raja Subodh Mullick Square in order that a ventilation shaft-cum-emergency exit for the East-West Metro line may also be constructed, KMC water division officials are now trying to capitalize on the shutdown to carry out the twin upkeep in supply pipelines at Nilmoni Mitra Road off Cossipore railway tracks and Chittaranjan Avenue close to Ram Mandir.
The two pipelines that supply filtered water are lifeline to huge spaces of north and central Kolkata and want to be repaired at the earliest. The civic government have formed a crack team for the repair and removal of major water pipes as civic engineers and workers attempt to coordinate the task in the sort of method that the entirety is completed in lower than 24 hours and supply restored on Sunday. Both the Palta water treatment plant and Tallah water reservoir might be shut after the morning supply on Saturday and resume best on Sunday morning.
“All supply traces in north and central Kolkata will move dry at 9.30am on Saturday. The supply will resume at 6.30am on Sunday,” an reliable said.
The process at Cossipore is a huge problem for the reason that a bit of the 60-inch diameter pipe runs immediately below the railway tracks. The pipeline is 30ft below the outside. “We won’t be capable to get anywhere close to the breached part of the main pipeline located below the railway tracks. We have deliberate to head down 30 ft to get to a brick sewer line which runs parallel to the water supply line. We will then get started repairing this pipe after water supply from Tallah is stopped. It is a precision process and needs to be finished on time,” said a KMC water supply division reliable.
Similarly, attaining the 24-inch pipeline 20-feet below Chittaranjan Avenue is not any much less a problem as a sand mattress created at the time of north-south Metro construction is proving a hurdle. “We have attempted to succeed in the pipeline that got breached a few days ago but failed. Every time we predict we've got virtually reached there, the sand slips via and covers the section. Progress is, due to this fact, sluggish. We have now used a wood peg to plug the breach. But the section needs to be correctly repaired with a gentle steel cap,” the reliable said.
Removal of a defunct 35-inch water pipe at Raja Subodh Mullick Square might be similarly tough as KMC engineers will want to exercise excessive caution and ensure its removal does not breach different major water pipelines that run parallelly underground.
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