A third desalination plant will come up at Pattipulam village along East Coast Road, serving the new areas of Greater Chennai.
With the city all set to become bigger, covering nearly 42 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will zero in on a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination plant at Pattipulam. The site is located a few kilometres away from the upcoming Nemmeli desalination plant.
Using a reverse-osmosis process, the plant will supply 200 million litres (MLD) of water per day – nearly 50% of the additional water needs of the city. Pattipulam plant will guarantee water supply to the IT corridor and southern suburbs, which are seeing a boom in new housing construction. Save Alandur, the rest of the local bodies does not get piped water supply. The city does not have a perennial water source for its 50 lakh populace and relies heavily on surface water sources such as Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills reservoirs and groundwater sources from Araniar and Kosasthaliar basin. Neighbouring Andhra stretches out its helping hand by supplying water from Krishna at times, while Veeranam tank in Kattumannarkoil in Cuddalore district rescues Chennai: A third desalination plant will come up at Pattipulam village along East Coast Road, serving the new areas of Greater Chennai.
With the city all set to become bigger, covering nearly 42 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will zero in on a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination plant at Pattipulam. The site is located a few kilometres away from the upcoming Nemmeli desalination plant. Using a reverse-osmosis process, the plant will supply 200 million litres (MLD) of water per day – nearly 50% of the additional water needs of the city. Pattipulam plant will guarantee water supply to the IT corridor and southern suburbs, which are seeing a boom in new housing construction. Save Alandur, the rest of the local bodies does not get piped water supply.
The city does not have a perennial water source for its 50 lakh populace and relies heavily on surface water sources such as Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills reservoirs and groundwater sources from Araniar and Kosasthaliar basin. Neighbouring Andhra stretches out its helping hand by supplying water from Krishna at times, while Veeranam tank in Kattumannarkoil in Cuddalore district rescues all through the year. Upon expansion, the water needs of the additional 30 lakh populace will be 400 MLD. "The consultant for the Pattiapulam plant will be identified in July. The firm will be asked to conduct feasibility studies and prepare a detailed project report in six months from the date of award of contract," said a senior government official.
"The facility will come up at Pattipulam village in an extent of 203.77 acres, owned by Alavandar Trust. Metrowater will get the land on lease for the city's sustainable water supply," the official added. The previous Karunanidhi regime inaugurated a 100 MLD desalination plant at Kattupalli village in Minjur in north Chennai exactly a year ago, while the second plant is under construction at Nemmeli in south Chennai. "At least 75% of the works are over in Nemmeli, except critical marine-related installations. The labourers are racing against time to complete the civil works by December this year, the original schedule of the programme," government sources told TOI.
But the city still faces a shortfall in meeting the water demand. The water board has proposed to get funding from the centre for the new plant, with the support of the state government. The consultants have to collect data like sea water, quality of water, temperature, salinity, seasonal variations, details of high tide and low tide and so on. The study will also assess the environmental impact, besides finding out a location for tapping the required power from the electricity board's power grid. Of the 100 MLD from Minjur plant, 85 MLD caters to the residential areas of north Chennai and the rest to the Manali industrial belt.
With the city all set to become bigger, covering nearly 42 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will zero in on a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination plant at Pattipulam. The site is located a few kilometres away from the upcoming Nemmeli desalination plant.
Using a reverse-osmosis process, the plant will supply 200 million litres (MLD) of water per day – nearly 50% of the additional water needs of the city. Pattipulam plant will guarantee water supply to the IT corridor and southern suburbs, which are seeing a boom in new housing construction. Save Alandur, the rest of the local bodies does not get piped water supply. The city does not have a perennial water source for its 50 lakh populace and relies heavily on surface water sources such as Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills reservoirs and groundwater sources from Araniar and Kosasthaliar basin. Neighbouring Andhra stretches out its helping hand by supplying water from Krishna at times, while Veeranam tank in Kattumannarkoil in Cuddalore district rescues Chennai: A third desalination plant will come up at Pattipulam village along East Coast Road, serving the new areas of Greater Chennai.
With the city all set to become bigger, covering nearly 42 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will zero in on a consultant to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination plant at Pattipulam. The site is located a few kilometres away from the upcoming Nemmeli desalination plant. Using a reverse-osmosis process, the plant will supply 200 million litres (MLD) of water per day – nearly 50% of the additional water needs of the city. Pattipulam plant will guarantee water supply to the IT corridor and southern suburbs, which are seeing a boom in new housing construction. Save Alandur, the rest of the local bodies does not get piped water supply.
The city does not have a perennial water source for its 50 lakh populace and relies heavily on surface water sources such as Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills reservoirs and groundwater sources from Araniar and Kosasthaliar basin. Neighbouring Andhra stretches out its helping hand by supplying water from Krishna at times, while Veeranam tank in Kattumannarkoil in Cuddalore district rescues all through the year. Upon expansion, the water needs of the additional 30 lakh populace will be 400 MLD. "The consultant for the Pattiapulam plant will be identified in July. The firm will be asked to conduct feasibility studies and prepare a detailed project report in six months from the date of award of contract," said a senior government official.
"The facility will come up at Pattipulam village in an extent of 203.77 acres, owned by Alavandar Trust. Metrowater will get the land on lease for the city's sustainable water supply," the official added. The previous Karunanidhi regime inaugurated a 100 MLD desalination plant at Kattupalli village in Minjur in north Chennai exactly a year ago, while the second plant is under construction at Nemmeli in south Chennai. "At least 75% of the works are over in Nemmeli, except critical marine-related installations. The labourers are racing against time to complete the civil works by December this year, the original schedule of the programme," government sources told TOI.
But the city still faces a shortfall in meeting the water demand. The water board has proposed to get funding from the centre for the new plant, with the support of the state government. The consultants have to collect data like sea water, quality of water, temperature, salinity, seasonal variations, details of high tide and low tide and so on. The study will also assess the environmental impact, besides finding out a location for tapping the required power from the electricity board's power grid. Of the 100 MLD from Minjur plant, 85 MLD caters to the residential areas of north Chennai and the rest to the Manali industrial belt.
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