KOLKATA: The entire of north and central Kolkata will move dry this Saturday when the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) water provide department is scheduled to undertake an pressing work to facilitate development of a ventilation shaft and an emergency go out for the East-West Metro at Raja Subodh Mullick Square.
The civic frame will need to extract a Raj-era underground water pipe on the Lenin Sarani-Nirmal Chandra Street intersection to make room for the ventilation shaft and the emergency go out for Metro commuters. According to a KMC official, the civic frame will close down whole operation at Palta and Tallah after supplying water to north and central Kolkata at nine.30am on March 30. Filtered water provide will be restored at 6.30am day after today.
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) authorities had approached the civic brass to survey all underground utilities earlier than the agency cleared the decks for development of the ventilation shaft. “Given the space crunch within the densely populated house at Subodh Mullick Square, we needed to survey all underground utilities minutely earlier than allowing KMRC to utilize area for development of the shaft,” a KMC water provide department official said.
A survey for the underground utilities traced the presence of a century-old underground waterpipe. “We had no concept about the pipe. After finding it, we attempted to grasp the realm the pipe used to supply water to. After a large number of research, we discovered that the pipe used to be locked. We then treated it as defunct and made up our minds to take away it for the construction of the shaft,” a civic official said.
Though all important preparations were made, KMC will have to tread with caution while pulling the defunct pipe out with out traumatic the adjacent ones. One of those pipes is as outdated as the defunct one but it surely provides water to high-profile addresses within the BBD Bag house, together with Raj Bhawan and Calcutta High Court. KMC will need to dig up a 30m stretch to drag out the pipe buried 12feet underneath the ground.
According to a KMRC official, the impending development work will be difficult as they need to dig a 35m hollow (similar to an 11-storey building) for the shaft and an emergency go out. “We will start development of the shaft after KMC offers us land through disposing of the defunct water pipe. We need to make certain that no underground application, together with water pipes, get breached all over the construction work. We were advised that a particular system will care for the piling work,” said a KMRC official.
The civic frame will need to extract a Raj-era underground water pipe on the Lenin Sarani-Nirmal Chandra Street intersection to make room for the ventilation shaft and the emergency go out for Metro commuters. According to a KMC official, the civic frame will close down whole operation at Palta and Tallah after supplying water to north and central Kolkata at nine.30am on March 30. Filtered water provide will be restored at 6.30am day after today.
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) authorities had approached the civic brass to survey all underground utilities earlier than the agency cleared the decks for development of the ventilation shaft. “Given the space crunch within the densely populated house at Subodh Mullick Square, we needed to survey all underground utilities minutely earlier than allowing KMRC to utilize area for development of the shaft,” a KMC water provide department official said.
A survey for the underground utilities traced the presence of a century-old underground waterpipe. “We had no concept about the pipe. After finding it, we attempted to grasp the realm the pipe used to supply water to. After a large number of research, we discovered that the pipe used to be locked. We then treated it as defunct and made up our minds to take away it for the construction of the shaft,” a civic official said.
Though all important preparations were made, KMC will have to tread with caution while pulling the defunct pipe out with out traumatic the adjacent ones. One of those pipes is as outdated as the defunct one but it surely provides water to high-profile addresses within the BBD Bag house, together with Raj Bhawan and Calcutta High Court. KMC will need to dig up a 30m stretch to drag out the pipe buried 12feet underneath the ground.
According to a KMRC official, the impending development work will be difficult as they need to dig a 35m hollow (similar to an 11-storey building) for the shaft and an emergency go out. “We will start development of the shaft after KMC offers us land through disposing of the defunct water pipe. We need to make certain that no underground application, together with water pipes, get breached all over the construction work. We were advised that a particular system will care for the piling work,” said a KMRC official.
North, central Kolkata taps to go dry on Mar 30
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