KMC to try end water repairs today

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has formed a special squad to repair a water transmission line that was breached on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road. The repair work will start on Saturday morning and end by the evening.
Apart from repairing the 60-inch water pipe, the civic body will also take up the maintenance of the Garden Reach water treatment plant and booster pumping stations in Behala and Tollygunge-Jadavpur belt.
A KMC official said the water supply will be suspended from Garden Reach waterworks after 10am on Saturday. The supply will be restored around 6am on Sunday morning.
However, mayor Firhad Hakim said that efforts were on to resume water supply by Saturday evening.
It is because of the repair and maintenance work that there will be no supply of filtered water from Garden Reach water treatment plant to Tollygunge, Jadavpur and Garia.
Water supply will also be affected in parts of Chetla, Kalighat, Rashbehari, Garfa, Dhakuria, Golf Green and some areas near Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, said a KMC water supply department official.