UT to build new STP at Kishangarh
Rajinder Nagarkoti | TNN | Feb 3, 2019, 05:47 IST
The STP will be constructed under the UT’s smart city project (File photo)CHANDIGARH: The UT administration has decided to construct a new sewage treatment plant (STP) at Kishangarh to manage sewage water of Kansal and Nayagaon entering the Sukhna catchment area from Punjab side.
The STP will not only solve the problem of sewage water entering the Sukhna forest area, but the treated water will also fill the parched Sukhna Lake throughout the year.
The UT administration had submitted a proposal on constructing the STP in Kishangarh before the Punjab and Haryana high court during the hearing of the save Sukhna case, recently.
The STP will be constructed under the UT’s smart city mission.
The new STP will fulfil the latest norms of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and it will have a capacity of 2 MLD. The effluent from the STP at Kishangarh will be used for filling up of Sukhna Lake during the dry weather and latest membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology will be used for producing effluent of high quality.
Since 2009, the management of Sukhna Lake is under the scanner of the Punjab and Haryana high court, which issues directions to the administration for taking measures to save Sukhna Lake. It was on the directions of the high court that the administration released water from seven tube-wells to Sukhna Lake when the water was reduced to a worrisome level.
Besides the STP at Kishangarh, the UT administration has also decided to spend Rs 808 crore to upgrade five sewerage treatment plants (STPs) in the city.
Recently, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel had directed the UT administration to upgrade all sewerage treatment plants (STPs) by 2021.
A senior UT official said these STPs would meet all the norms of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
“The administration will receive tenders for the project on February 11 and the work will be completed within two years. The agency, which will be allotted the work, will also have to maintain these STPs for a period of 15 years,” he added.
In August last year, taking a suo motu cognizance of media reports on the pollution in the Ghaggar river, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had directed the chief secretaries of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh to constitute a special task force (STF) to clean the Ghaggar river.
Thereafter, the NGT committee in Chandigarh, along with the officials of Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), visited various points of Sukhna choe in Chandigarh territory and observed the level of pollution.
The STP will not only solve the problem of sewage water entering the Sukhna forest area, but the treated water will also fill the parched Sukhna Lake throughout the year.
The UT administration had submitted a proposal on constructing the STP in Kishangarh before the Punjab and Haryana high court during the hearing of the save Sukhna case, recently.
The STP will be constructed under the UT’s smart city mission.
The new STP will fulfil the latest norms of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and it will have a capacity of 2 MLD. The effluent from the STP at Kishangarh will be used for filling up of Sukhna Lake during the dry weather and latest membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology will be used for producing effluent of high quality.
Since 2009, the management of Sukhna Lake is under the scanner of the Punjab and Haryana high court, which issues directions to the administration for taking measures to save Sukhna Lake. It was on the directions of the high court that the administration released water from seven tube-wells to Sukhna Lake when the water was reduced to a worrisome level.
Besides the STP at Kishangarh, the UT administration has also decided to spend Rs 808 crore to upgrade five sewerage treatment plants (STPs) in the city.
Recently, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) panel had directed the UT administration to upgrade all sewerage treatment plants (STPs) by 2021.
A senior UT official said these STPs would meet all the norms of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
“The administration will receive tenders for the project on February 11 and the work will be completed within two years. The agency, which will be allotted the work, will also have to maintain these STPs for a period of 15 years,” he added.
In August last year, taking a suo motu cognizance of media reports on the pollution in the Ghaggar river, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had directed the chief secretaries of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh to constitute a special task force (STF) to clean the Ghaggar river.
Thereafter, the NGT committee in Chandigarh, along with the officials of Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), visited various points of Sukhna choe in Chandigarh territory and observed the level of pollution.
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