- Increase in leakages due to construction work
Wardha. For the past few years, development works have been accelerated in the city under various schemes, including underground gutter plan as well as cementation of roads, etc. To complete the construction work, excavation work was done on behalf of JCB on the roads, due to which large scale But the problem of leakage in the water supply pipeline came to the fore in the last 13 months, pipeline leakage occurred at 1,302 places, for which the city council’s funds have been spent about 50 lakh rupees.
The problem became a headache for the water supply department
Under the city council, water supply is done in different parts of the city through tap scheme, for this the water supply department of the city council is working, the employees of the department are trying to supply pure water in every house in a smooth manner. Water supply has proved to be a headache for the department, while completing the work of road, culvert, underground gutter scheme, the maximum leakage occurred in the excavation work, for which around 50 lakhs have been spent for repair.
Provision has been made to spend Rs 1 crore in the year
A provision of 1 crore has been made by the Water Supply Department of the Municipal Council to provide pure drinking water from every tap to every house. The city council has a water purification center at ITI Tekdi, here, for the repair of bleaching, pipeline leakage, about Rs 1 crore has been spent in a year. is done.
6 different types of pipeline have been laid
Various 6 sizes of pipelines are included by the city council, 2 to 10 inch pipeline has leakage at 800 places, 200 mm pipeline has leakage problem at 250 places while 600 mm pipe line has 12 places, 450 mm pipe Repair work was completed due to leakage at 45 places of the line, 45 places of 400 mm pipeline and 150 places of 300 mm pipeline.
Excavation work is being spent the most
After the leakage of the pipeline, the maximum expenditure is spent on the excavation work to the city council administration, while there is a leakage cost of Rs 3 lakh for the repair of a 600 mm pipeline, similarly a leakage of 450 to 300 mm pipeline. It costs around 90 thousand for repair, while the repair of 150 to 200 mma pipeline costs around 30 thousand, this repair work is completed by putting mechanical joint.