These Sewage Treatment Plants will be a part of the civic body’s mega seven STP projects.
WD News: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to set up four Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) at an estimated cost of Rs 4 crore between Mahalaxmi and Nepean Sea Road in South Mumbai in the reclaimed areas where the Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP) is being built.
The largest of the four STPs will be built at Markandeshwar Nulla near Atria Mall which will have a capacity to treat 300 kilolitres (KLD) of sewage. Another STP of 100 KLD capacity is being built at Darya Nagar near Mahalaxmi Temple, followed by a 50-KLD STP near Jindal Bungalow at Nepean Sea Road and a 35 KLD STP near the Darya Sagar slums.
Mantayya Swami, Chief Engineer of MCRP, said that these STPs are part of the MCRP and are being built to prevent the disposal of biological human waste in the reclaimed land near which various slum pockets are located.
“Earlier, human waste from these slums would go into the sea, however, after the reclamation has been done for the MCRP project, the waste would get deposited on the surface itself. To prevent this, we are building these STPs at four such locations,” said Mr Swami.
The fund for the STPs is being raised through corporate social responsibility initiatives. The Indian Institute of Technology IIT-Bombay is providing technical guidance for building these STPs and Larsen and Toubro (L&T) is the appointed consultant carrying out the civil engineering works.
Source: Indian Express
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