KTR to launch Leachate plant to treat wastewater at Jawahar Nagar dump yard
The Malkaram pond near the Jawahar Nagar dump yard is filled with wastewater due to the waste accumulated in the center of the dump yard due to the overflow of water
HYDERABAD: Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K Taraka Rama Rao will inaugurate the Leachate treatment plant set up at Rs. 250 crores to overcome the water pollution problem in Jawahar Nagar and surrounding areas in Hyderabad on Saturday. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, which has set a benchmark in waste management, has made efforts in association with the Telangana government to treat the liquid waste at Jawahar Nagar and succeeded.
The Malkaram pond near the Jawahar Nagar dump yard is filled with wastewater due to the waste accumulated in the center of the dump yard due to the overflow of water. The Telangana government along with GHMC has taken up the problem of pollution of ponds seriously and carried out a short-term and comprehensive solution plan to put an end to the problem.
As part of the measures, the GHMC has first launched a Mobile RO system to treat the liquid waste of capacity 2,000-kilo liters per day and later enhanced to 4000 kiloliters per day. The government also made efforts to purify about 11.60 lakh kilo litres of water in Malkaram pond which was filled with wastewater and constructed stormwater diversion at Rs. 4.35 crores to stop wastewater from the pond does not overflow.
Meanwhile, the GHMC has already completed the capping works on the Jawahar Nagar dump yard to stop the pollution caused by the flood water coming into the dump yard in the year 2020 and has prepared a comprehensive solution for the treatment of waste. The GHMC undertook a special program in the name of the treatment of wastewater from Jawahar Nagar and restoration of ponds in the surrounding areas in 2020 at a cost of around Rs.250 crore and assigned the works to Ramky company, which developed a Leachate treatment plant.
Ramky company took up the restoration and purification program of the Malkaram pond and temperory water pits in three phases has cleansed 43 percent of the Malkaram pond, which was approved by Pollution Control Board. It is said that the remaining works are going on. The GHMC hopes that the solid waste, as well as the water waste problem in the Jawahar Nagar area, will be eradicated after the completion of the program.