Pallavaram, Pammal now receive piped water supply

Pallavaram, Pammal now receive piped water supply

Oppili.P@timesgroup.com

Chennai:05.03.2021 

More than 40,000 residents in Pallavaram and Pammal municipal limits have begun getting piped water from Metrowater.

A senior official of the agency said that under the project, which was commissioned a couple of days ago, 28,000 connections were provided in Pallavaram, while 13,400 were provided in Pammal.

Metrowater draws more than 4 million litres of water a day (MLD) from Chembarambakkam reservoir for piped supply to the houses in both the municipalities and has collected the required charges.

In Pallavaram, where the requirement is nearly 30 MLD, the municipality buys 5.5 MLD from Metrowater and 1.5 MLD from the TWAD Board that draws from the Palar scheme. The remaining quantity is managed with other sources, an official said.

For residents of areas under Pammal area, where the requirement is 6 MLD, the municipality gets 0.5 MLD from the TWAD Board and another 2.5 MLD from Metrowater.

Given that the water requirement is only set to increase in the two areas where there has been rapid development in the past few years, with residential colonies springing up all over, the authorities the authorities have begun exploiting the abandoned quarries within their jurisdictions. The state department of municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) has set up treatment plants at two quarries in Pallavaram and one in Pammal, the official added.

During the cruel summer of 2019, one of the worst in the memory of the city’s residents, people in some of the core areas were supplied water drawn from some abandoned quarries in the suburbs.