Himalayan cloudburst stops NCR’s water supply
18 Sept 2012 5:38 AM IST
The cascading effect of the cloudburst and landslide incidents in Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand on last Friday was felt in the National Capital Region, as the supply of water in the Upper Ganga Canal was stopped completely due to high silt concentration. It led to complete shut down of the water treatment plant at Pratap Vihar in Ghaziabad. This has led to a crisis of water supply in Noida and townships in trans-Hindon area in Ghaziabad.
‘We had to shut down the water treatment plant completely, as the silt concentration was too high to treat the water. The supply of water was stopped in the canal from Uttarakhand and de-silting process is being carried on war scale,’ said R K Agarwal, executive engineer of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam in Ghaizabad. ‘The plant is now working partially and may resume normalcy very soon,’ added Agarwal.
However, the sources in the department revealed that the normal functioning will be resumed only by Tuesday, when fresh water from Haridwar reaches here.
The water treatment plant in Pratap Vihar is fed by raw water in Ganga Canal and releases 120 mld of water, which is supplied in entire Noida and Kaushambi, Vaishali, Vasundhara, Surya Nagar, Chadra Nagar, Brij Vihar areas in Ghaziabad region.
‘Water pipes have remained dry since Sunday and we surviving on water tankers and nearby hand pumps. Getting water tankers is too difficult as officers hardly respond to calls,’ said Sunita Sinha, a resident in Sector 4, Vashali, in Ghaziabad. The officers also accepted delay in response blaming it on weekend holiday and Vishwakarma Puja on Monday. However, the officer of water and sewage department in Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and Ghaziabad Development Authority [GDA] resorted to supply from tube wells in their areas, but those proved be insufficient to meet the demand. ‘We are supplying water through our 22 tube-wells and tankers,’ said A K Gupta, executive engineer of GDA.
‘We had to shut down the water treatment plant completely, as the silt concentration was too high to treat the water. The supply of water was stopped in the canal from Uttarakhand and de-silting process is being carried on war scale,’ said R K Agarwal, executive engineer of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam in Ghaizabad. ‘The plant is now working partially and may resume normalcy very soon,’ added Agarwal.
However, the sources in the department revealed that the normal functioning will be resumed only by Tuesday, when fresh water from Haridwar reaches here.
The water treatment plant in Pratap Vihar is fed by raw water in Ganga Canal and releases 120 mld of water, which is supplied in entire Noida and Kaushambi, Vaishali, Vasundhara, Surya Nagar, Chadra Nagar, Brij Vihar areas in Ghaziabad region.
‘Water pipes have remained dry since Sunday and we surviving on water tankers and nearby hand pumps. Getting water tankers is too difficult as officers hardly respond to calls,’ said Sunita Sinha, a resident in Sector 4, Vashali, in Ghaziabad. The officers also accepted delay in response blaming it on weekend holiday and Vishwakarma Puja on Monday. However, the officer of water and sewage department in Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and Ghaziabad Development Authority [GDA] resorted to supply from tube wells in their areas, but those proved be insufficient to meet the demand. ‘We are supplying water through our 22 tube-wells and tankers,’ said A K Gupta, executive engineer of GDA.
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