Authorities have announced a temporary shutdown of water supply for three days to address a leakage issue in the Ganga water supply line at the Pratap Vihar plant. Repair work will commence from March 7 at midnight until March 10 at midnight. Residents are urged to conserve water and avoid the affected route.
ग्रेटर नोएडा प्राधिकरण ने सोमवार को कहा कि ग्रेटर नोएडा के आस-पास के ग्रामीणों को अक्टूबर के अंत तक गंगाजल की आपूर्ति मिल जाएगी। जानकारी के . | News Track
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NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Supply of Ganga water would be suspended in Noida and Ghaziabad for about a fortnight from Tuesday or Wednesday. While sludge has choked supply channels after the Chamoli tragedy because of increased silt in the Upper Ganga Canal, officials said water supply is being turned off because a pipeline shifted from its original location off the Delhi-Meerut Expressway will now be linked to the main line.
Over the past few days, the water of the 185km long canal from Haridwar to Dasna has been found to have an abnormally high level of silt deposits. “Against the usual 300 particles per million (ppm), the canal has recorded 7,000 ppm. This has not only inhibited the flow of the canal, but has also brought sludge to the two water treatment plants in Ghaziabad and choked the lines,” said Subhendra Choudhary, project manager of the Ganga water treatment plant at Siddharth Vihar.
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GREATER NOIDA: Several residential areas in the city, including Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Pi 3, are likely to get Ganga water supply by May.
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) has built pipeline and reservoirs for distributing 85 cusecs (207.95 MLD) of water from the Upper Ganga Canal in Haridwar and trials for the first phase (covering the populated areas) to supply 51.09 cusecs are likely to begin from mid-March. Currently, residents of Greater Noida get treated groundwater taken from ranny wells and tube wells.
“We will be able to provide Ganga water to residents of Greater Noida from May this year. While work to lay pipelines and build reservoirs was done earlier, we will start trials from mid-March,” said PK Kaushik, general manager (projects), GNIDA.