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Devadula waters to reach tri-cities next week
Facing an uphill task for meeting drinking water needs of the parched denizens, the relatively new civic body of the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) is on a mission to mitigate the water problem.
​Warangal: Facing an uphill task for meeting drinking water needs of the parched denizens, the relatively new civic body of the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) is on a mission to mitigate the water problem. With a herculean task of pumping 345 MCFT of water from the gradually evaporating Godavari river to the intake well of Devadula Lift in hand, the officials of Irrigation, GWMC and the contracting agency are working overtime to ensure a proper drinking water supply in the city.
It may be noted here that as the Godavari flow is at 67 meters above mean sea level (MSL) currently, it became necessary for the GWMC civic body to pump the water from the river to intake well (fore-bay) of Devadula project. If the river flow is at 72 meters above MSL, straightaway the Devadula Lift scheme would have pumped the water to Dharmasagar directly.
It would have saved Rs 8.69 crore exchequer for the GWMC. The plan is to lift 18 MCFT a day for 23 days. As per the estimates of the engineers, a transmission loss of 3 MCFT a day is unavoidable. At this rate, the GWMC will get a whopping 345 MCFT of water in 23 days. In all, 35 motors together with a pumping capacity of 2,320 HP have been installed at Devadula.
While the authorities have begun pumping of water through a couple of motors (2X70HP) on Wednesday evening, the full-fledged pumping will start from Thursday evening. Speaking to The Hans India, Mayor Nannapuneni Narender said: “We are geared up to meet the drinking water needs of the people even if the southwest monsoons are delayed.
The 345 MCFT of water drawn from Godavari is sufficient to cater to the drinking water needs of tri-cities of Warangal, Hanamkonda and Kazipet till the end of July. The water will reach Dharmasagar via Bheem Ghanpur and Pulkurthy in about a week.” On Wednesday, together all the three summer storage tanks–Dharmasagar, Waddepally and Bhadrakali-have 384 MCFT.
According to officials, at least 30 per cent of water will be lost due to evaporation and another 100 MCFT will come under dead storage level. “The net available water is about 198 MCFT and this will be sufficient to cater to the drinking water needs of the denizens up to May 20, if supplied alternate days,” the Municipal Commissioner Sarfaraz Ahmad said. The civic body has formed three special action teams to tackle the leakages in distribution system, the Mayor said.
