By 10th July, Chennai city to get water from Jolarpet
Posted on: 04/Jul/2019 9:51:42 AM
Jolarpet situated in the Vellore district is grabbing many eyeballs now. It is now said that by 10th of July 2019 city of Chennai is likely to receive its first water train from Jolarpet. The superb information is the work on building infrastructure at Jolarpet and Chennai to transport water for the city that has been facing severe water shortage has been accelerated.
Every day, nearly 10 million litres of water would be brought by 50 wagon train from the Jolarpet railway station. It has been mentioned by the sources belonging to the metro water department that the project had been speeded up at both Chennai as well as in Jolarpet so that by 10th July water could be transported to Chennai city. The sources later pointed out that it would take up to 4 daily trips for the volume of water received under the Combined Water Supply Scheme and Cauvery would be the source.
A transformer near the underground water sump at Mettusakkarakuppam has been installed by the workers on Wednesday is known. Point to be taken into account is work is going on to lay 3.5 km long pipeline in 3 stretches simultaneously and that would include Mettusakkarakuppam and Pasampettai. Just within a day, the pipelines along the track would be laid.
According to some officials belonging to TWAD or Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, water would be transferred to the wagons at filling points. Information is in order to avoid traffic congestion much of the work has been done in the night time. For the uninterrupted power supply, a generator room was also readied. This has been confirmed by the officials.
The officials explained about how for decanting water due to the rains, a 400 mm diameter along the second main road, south Jagannathan Nagar, Villivakkam, was laid. Information collected is this pipeline would run 700m along the railway track. It is known that a conduit line carries water from Red Hills Lake and it is now revealed that this pipeline would be linked to the conduit line.
From the Kilpauk water works, water would be taken to central as well as north Chennai. Negotiations regarding the transportation cost have been going on with the southern railway. Point to be noted is nearly 80% of the project cost of Rs 65 crores would go for transportation cost. The officials finally spoke about how this would be one of contingency steps to sustain water supply of 525 mld till November to Chennai.
