Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Wednesday inaugurated the tertiary treatment plant (TTP) of 35 million litres per day (MLD) capacity at Bamroli for supplying the treated water to about 68 textile dyeing and printing mills in Sachin GIDC.
Surat was the first in the state to set up tertiary treatment plant of 40 MLD capacity on Ultra Filtration (UF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology at Bamroli in 2014. The plant is generating industrial grade water and that it is being supplied to the textile mills located in Pandesara GIDC since 2014.
SMC’s executive engineer, EH Pathan said, “Bamroli now has two TTPs of 35 MLD and 40 MLD capacity each. The 35 MLD plant will supply treated water to industries in Sachin. While the 40 MLD TTP is supplying to Pandesara industries.”
According to Pathan, the SMC has set a target of treating and supplying 550 MLD water to industrial units in Pandesara, Sachin, Palsana, Hazira and nearby areas at the cost of Rs 500 crore by 2021.
Work is going on for the three more TTPs at Kosad, Bhesan and Asarma with total capacity of 313 MLD. About 180 MLD of treated water will be supplied to Hazira units.
SMC supplies treated water to the industries at Rs 29 per kilo litres. At present, ot is earning about Rs 30 crore revenue by supplying treated water to Pandesara GIDC.
Ramaben Ramoliya, chairman, Sachin Industrial Association told TOI, “We had signed an MoU with SMC for supplying treated water in 2015. Till now, the industries were dependent on raw water from the irrigation canal and private tankers for daily requirement of 70 MLD.”