City Sanitation Plan for Nashik - SuSanA

PART IV: Strategies and Action Plan
City Sanitation Plan for Nashik
2: WasteWater Management
The issues requiring attention in this sector are: ground water pollution due to prevalence of septic tanks, lack of waste water information and no reuse/recycle of waste
water. To address these issues NMC should initiate following actions:
I. To control ground water pollution due to prevalence of septic tanks:
NMC should prepare a detailed action plan to progressively phase out septic tanks
a) b) Carry out property-level assessment of prevalence of septic tanks and
The phasing should start from the old city area with septic tanks which are
older than 10 years. Then the septic tanks which are constructed during
previous decade but are not functioning effectively will be phased out. The
action plan should have provisions for people participation and awareness
campaigns.
collect necessary information
Two new vacuum suction trucks need to be purchased as the existing numbers of trucks are inadequate.
Clarify and enforce bye-laws for monitoring and regulation of on-site sanitation, in consultation with GoM.
a) Monitoring will be done by the Health
Department.
b) c)
Sanitary Inspectors will submit a monthly report
to the department on the number of requests for
cleaning of septic tanks, amount collected, and
citizens’ grievances.
A provision should be made for fines/ penalties
for improper disposal of septage.
Based on normative assessment, the cost
of provision and implementation of the
above actions is estimated at ` 2.50 crores
during 2011 to 2016.
NEED
Re-use and Recycling Cost Recovery Collection Efficiency % of area with
piped network
27