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Choondi project to be inaugurated soon

— Photo: Vipin Chandran

LIFELINE: Pipes being laid for the Choondi water project at Thripunithura.

KOCHI: The delayed Choondi water project is expected to be commissioned by early next month. The project that would bring 12 million litres a day (MLD) to Thripunithura municipality alone, and which was expected to be commissioned in December 2008, had been in limbo for quite some time till it picked up pace in the last couple of months.

The delay in the project was due to the lack of co-ordination among various government departments that need to provide sanctions for pipe-laying and the water tank construction. The project cost, which was earlier pegged at Rs. 56.36 crore, has marginally increased to Rs. 56.72 crore.

The Choondi project was also intended to provide water for Thiruvamkulam, Chottanikkara and Udayamperoor panchayats from its total capacity of 35 MLD. The construction of the new water tank of 10-lakh-litre capacity at the Hill Palace museum is part of the project. The work on this tank was inaugurated recently.

The departmental delay in getting sanction from the Archaeology Department had held up work on the tank.

A bridge to take the pipeline across the Chitrapuzha rivulet was built recently and work is going on to set up the pipes on the bridge.

Already small amounts of water are being pumped along the network on a trial basis.

The 15-lakh-litre collection sump at Karingachira will be ready to receive water in a couple of days, said a Kerala Water Authority official. “This will enable us to have a better trial run,” said the official. Once the pipeline to Thripunithura is laid, a trial run would be conducted for the entire network of the Choondi project to be commissioned.

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