NEW DELHI: Low-cost weirs have been assembled indoors Shahdara Drain to decrease contamination from the Yamuna, water ministry Satyendar Jain stated while seeing with the Shahdara Drain and Kalyanpuri sewer pumping station jobs on Friday.
“I seen the outfall of Shahdara Drain and also reviewed the progress of some cheap weir being assembled in the drain.
Ponds will be made to reinforce groundwater recharge with 70 million gallons daily (MGD) treated water in the Kondli sewer treatment plant (STP) and just wash water is going to be permitted to flow in the Yamuna,” said Jain, who’s also the chairman of Delhi Jal Board.
The two jobs, being undertaken by Delhi authorities, is going to be the key to decreasing imports of untreated sewage to the Yamuna.
Treated water in the Kondli plant is going to be utilized to create a 4km-long groundwater recharge zone in the drain,” said Jain.
In addition, he instructed officials to put pipelines to take treated effluent in the Kondli STP to resurrect Sanjay Lake and Smriti Van Lake.
“Visited 35MGD Kalyanpuri SPS in Shahdara Drain.
It is now prepared to divert whole waste water in Shahdara Drain to Kondli STP,” Jain tweeted following the trip.
The water in the Kondli STP is going to be utilized to reestablish lakes and waterbodies, the ministry added.
Based on estimates from DJB, the current water source from the funding is 935MGD, equal to 4,086 million gallons each day (MLD).
It’s projected that 80 percent of the becomes waste water, even together with the town as a complete producing 720MGD or even 3,268MLD of waste water.
Untreated industrial and sewage effluent release transported by Delhi’s drainage system winds up in the lake resulting in contamination.
Between Okhla and Badarpur, the Yamuna receives waste water in four heaters — Abu Fazal, Jaitpur, Tuglaqabad and Shahdara.
Shahdara Drain, flowing round the eastern portion of Delhi, matches the lake downstream of this Okhla barrage to the perfect bank.
DJB has proposed many projects to decrease the pollution load out of three primary drains which carry untreated sewage to the Yamuna — Najafgarh, Shahdara and drains that are supplementary.
From the run-up into the 2020 assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party has promised to wash the Yamuna.
Chief Union Arvind Kejriwal had assured if re-elected from the elections, his administration could create the Yamuna river so clear that citizens of the federal capital would have the ability to have a dip in it.