Drinking water supply to parts of Narasimharaja assembly constituency in Mysuru, which had remained affected since the last 10 days, has been restored following the repair of the motor that pumps water. Supply had been hit since May 27 when one of the two motors developed a snag, drastically reducing the quantity of water supplied.
The repair work of another motor, which also broke down, was expedited. The repaired motor was installed on Tuesday and pumping of water was restored, said Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner C.G. Betsurmath.
Though the installed capacity of Melapura drinking water scheme is 100 million litres per day (MLD), it was pumping only around 70 MLD per day due to various reasons. The Melapura water scheme caters to a population of about 4 lakh people through 60,000 drinking water connections. The project also provides water to a few parts of Krishnaraja assembly constituency.
Though Melapura has a total of three motors so that one can remain a standby when two others are pumping water, one motor had been sent for repairs on May 10. Even before the motor could be repaired - it normally takes around one to one-and-a-half months for repairs to be completed - one of the two motors that were in use developed a snag on May 27.
Against the normal 70 MLD, barely 38 to 40 MLD water was being pumped following the snag. Hence, water supply to around 20 wards of Narasimharaja assembly constituency had been affected, MCC said in a statement here. However, after the motor was repaired, about 80 MLD of water was being pumped, the MCC claimed.
It may be mentioned here that infrastructure upgrade works are proposed at Melapura under the Central government’s Amrut scheme to improve its pumping capacity to 150 MLD by installing four more pumps of 1,450 HP, besides installing four more centrifugal pumps of 1,100 HP at the water purification plant at Ramanahalli and taking up works on a power station and other pipelines.
