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Sewerage project: tenders by February

Kozhikode: Tenders for the multi-crore sewerage and storm-water drainage projects drawn up under the Asian Development Bank-funded Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP) will be floated in the first week of February.

Kozhikode Mayor M. Bhaskaran said here on Tuesday that the council would take a final decision on both these projects after consulting the KSUDP officials. The projects would be commissioned in 2011.

The proposal is to complete the projects within 16 months of finalising the contract. The final draft of the projects was presented before the councillors and other stakeholders at the council hall here on Tuesday.

A sum of Rs.95.17 crore has been allotted for the sewerage system and Rs.66 crore for the drainage system. T. Abdul Aziz and P. Sethumadavan, consultants from the New-Delhi-based Water and Power Consultancy Services-Institute for Social Achievement presented the projects.

The Mayor said that the Corporation had plans to introduce a cess on beneficiaries of the projects. The annual maintenance of the sewerage project was Rs.2.17 crore. However the families belonging to Below Poverty Line would be exempted from the cess, Mr. Bhaskaran said.

Under the sewerage project, the city has been divided into two zones. Zone A will have coastal areas, railway lines, the Kallayi river and Bhatt Road, while Zone B will cover areas in the eastern side of the railway tracks, the Canoly Canal, the Kallayi river, Puthiyangadi and Kunduparamba. A treatment plant would be established at Karimbanappalam. This plant will be set up based on the calculation that a person produces effluent of 155 litres daily. The total water treated will come up to 300 lakh litres. This includes water from the septic tanks.

The treatment plant will be designed using the Fluidigel Aerolic Bioreactor (FAB) technology. It will be free of pollution and environmental hazards. The treated water will be chlorinated and drained to Canoly Canal. The area will be developed into a green belt.

Regarding the storm-water drainage system, the proposal is to divide the city into three zones and link the major drains. Zone A covers the northern side of the Corporation boundary from the southern side of the Kallayi river, east of Canoly Canal and the western side till the coast. One of the proposals is to clean the canals at Edakkal and Kurinjoli.

Zone B covers the southern side of the Kallayi river. The Thiruvannur, Kallai, Panniyankara, Meenchanda, Payyanakkal, Kappakkal, Nadanchery and Chakkumkkadavu wards will come under this zone. Zone C covers the area having the lowest density of population in the city.

Mr. Bhaskaran said that steps would be taken to store the storm-water by constructing check dams instead of draining the water to Canoly canal.A. Achyuthan, environmentalist, who took part in the meeting suggested reusing the treated water instead of draining it to the Canoly canal. Constructing percolation pits and dredging of the canal at Kallai side would be helpful to implement the projects , he said.

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