Treated water to clean train
Posted on: 29/Apr/2016 4:20:48 PM
Aiming to conserve fresh water, the southern railways is making expansion in its basic infrastructure for grey water treatment for cleaning aprons alongside platforms at the Chennai central railway station.
Aprons - these are places where the trains stop at the platform and halt for long time. Here, waste, dirt and in fact, human waste gets accumulated from the train toilets.
As of now, these dirt and human wastes are being cleaned using water supply sourced from the Chennai metropolitan water supply and sewage board. This cleaning of soiled areas has been troublesome as there is no appropriate mechanized disposal system found yet.
This problem is set to get resolved with the use of treated water sourced from the recycling plants at train care centre, Basin Bridge. This will be used on all platforms at central station where more than 200 trains get operated.
One of the officials at the recycling plant says the plant was established at Basin Bridge in January. About 2 lakh litres of water is treated here every day. The installed capacity here is 10 lakh litres per day. Nearly 2 lakh litres of water get used daily for cleaning 300 coaches of 20 trains inclusive of Shatabdi and Duronto. The quality of treated water is planned to get bettered so that this can be of help to clean aprons.
All the main pipelines required to transport water are already laid. Now, works to set up branch pipes to all platforms are required to be fixed. The work will continue for few more months from now.
