Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services ... - Municipal

4. Rapid urban assessment - services, issues and gaps
This section provides details of the current status of various urban services in Krishnagiri
Municipality and summarizes key issues. The section also covers an analysis of the projects identified
by Krishnagiri municipality as part of its Vision Plan and the demand assessment of these projects.
Finally, the section summarizes the normative gaps in infrastructure provisioning in water supply,
underground drainage, roads, streetlights and solid waste management.
4.1 Water Supply – existing status
4.1.1 Current requirement
Krish-M‟s requirement in 2006 is estimated at about 8.71MLD (Town‟s population of 64,587 @ 135
lpcd).
4.1.2 Sources of supply and Transmission
Water is supplied to the town through two schemes (1) Old scheme (1975) and (2) New scheme. The
head works is situated on the right bank of the river, pumped to reservoir and then distributed to the
town through 38.65 km of Thenpennaiyar in the village called Sundeykuppam at a distance of 11 km.
The water from river is collected in five wells distribution system.
The river Thenpennaiyar is polluted by the sewerage effluents overflowing form the lake Varathur and
Belandur near Bangalore city About 30 % of the drinking water ( Greenish colour) source in the two
districts had fluoride content, 26 % nitrate, 24 % iron and 18 % hardness which could lead to dental,
skeletal flourosis, blue body syndrome, throat infection and skin irritation in that order.
Presently there is no treatment of the water supplied to the city. In order to improve the quality
of water drawn from the river, a treatment plant is being proposed at estimated cost of Rs. 151.73 lakh
by the TWAD board..
Exhibit 4.1 provides details of the sources of water and the total daily supply.
4.1.3 Storage
Exhibit 4.1 Water Supply - Storage infrastructure
Sr. No. Details of water supply schemes Unit Capacity
1 Quantity Supplied MLD 4.3
2 Distance of the Source from Town Km 11
3 Capacity of the Treatment Plant MLD Nil
4 Per capita supply- 2006 Lpcd 61.3
Water is pumped through headworks located at Sundeykuppam (11 Km) and transmitted to the Over
Head Tanks (OHTs) / Ground Level Service Reservoirs (GLSRs), located at various places in the
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