Monday onwards there will be increase in water flow from the Aliyar scheme to the areas that fall in South Zone.
The areas have seen a less than 50 per cent fall in supply that prompted the Coimbatore Corporation officials to convene a meeting on Friday with the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) officials to thrash out a solution.
After discussions, the officials agreed that the TWAD Board will install five generators at the pumping or booster stations in order to ensure that power disruption does not affect the running of the motors.
As the scheme stands, the TWAD Board draws raw water from Athu Pollachi, treats the water and pumps the clear water to Achipatti and then Kinathukadavu and from there to Kurichi and Kuniamuthur and then Thirunagar Colony.
Being a relay scheme, the Board requires water at all the pumping or booster stations to supply water to the residents. Power cut at any one of the stations will impact water supply.
To immediately tide over the crisis, the Corporation will supply three of its spare generators to power the motors during power cut. The TWAD Board will arrange for two.
This, according to Corporation Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy, will ensure that in the absence of power cut all the motors run and during power cut, one of the two motors at each of the stations run using the generators. This means, that the Corporation will be able to supply 100 per cent during power supply and 50 per cent during power cuts.
The overall effect will be that the residents will get nearly 70 per cent of the promised capacity.
As a long term solution, the Corporation has asked the TWAD Board to work with the TANGEDCO to ensure that the pumping/ booster stations are powered by separate feeders so as to circumvent power cuts.
The officials from the departments promised a solution in two months.
