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| Even after 2 weeks of floods, water supply remain affected in various localities | | Muddy Tawi water reduces filtration plants' capacity, shortall of 12 MGD daily | | G S Asgotra
Jammu, Sep 13: Because of the recent floods, the muddy Tawi water has become a hiccup for Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, virtually reducing the capacity of all filtration plants and creating a shortfall of 12 million gallons per day (MGD), while water supply in various localities has still been disrupted.
Though the PHE department has been claiming to have restored all tubewells and six filtration plants, intaking water from river Tawi, but despite restoration, various localities have been facing water scarcity.
Officials in the PHE department informed Early Times that the requirement of potable water for Jammu city was around 47.5 million gallons per day but the PHE department with its existing infrastructure was providing about 35 million gallons on daily basis and there was gap of 12.5 million gallons per day.
Pertinently, PHE has four filtration plants at Sheetli Nagrota, with 3.5 MGD capacity each, one at Boria Gorkha Nagar and one at Circular Road and all these plants have Tawi as source of water.
"The filtration plants were virtually closed due to change of course of river Tawi near Sheetli filtration plant and after the water receded in river, the PHE department dug out a channel so that water was taken from river", an official said.
He further said that still the water was so muddy that capacity of all filtration plants has been reduced to a large extent. "The sludge in water is so thin that it takes almost double time for impuruities to settle down. Moreover, when the alum is poured in tankers, sludge also settles in the base of tankers, which also need water to clean", he said, adding that due to such reasons the gap between demand and supply exists.
The Boria filtration plant remained affected for more than one week, due to which the water supply in various localities of Gandhi Nagar remains affected, while in some localities for the last few days there was no water supply.
Same was the condition in some localities of old Jammu city, while if the water was being supplied to the localities, the timing of supply has reduced to almost half of actual capacity, while in Belicharana area, the water supply was still totally affected for the last more than one week.
PHE Chief Engineer Ashok Kumar Aima said that water supply has been restored in majority of areas but still the problem exists.
"The localities in which there is no water supply for the last few days, tankers of PHE, Fire Brigade and Army have been put into force to provide water", he said.
He said that though all tubewels have been restored but in Belicharana area, power supply has remained affected and the department has been arranging generator sets to run the tubewells. |
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