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48-hour Water Supply Break In Feb Last Wk For Pipe-pump Connection | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Residents of the city may have to face a 48-hour water crisis in the last week of this month or in early March as PHED officials plan to stop water supply to Jaipur from Bilaspur Dam to connect the main pipeline with the newly installed intermediate pump house at Renwal.
This is going to be the first time in years when water supply to entire Jaipur would be affected.
The Bisalpur II project, which aims at supplying an additional 216 MLD water to Jaipur, is nearing completion. PHED is not replacing the main pipeline of this project.
It would install a pumphouse with nine pumps at Renwal, around 11 kms from PHED’s storage cum main pumping station at Balawala in Sanganer.
“We have to cut the main pipeline and connect its one end to the inflow pipes and the other end to the outflow pipes of the new pump house. The two ends of the main pipeline need to be sealed after the cuts. For this we need around 48 hours as we need to wait till the pipeline becomes dry after water supply is stopped. This type of pipelines cannot be cut until and unless they are completely dry,” PHED superintendent engineer Satish Jain told TOI.
Although PHED had proposed that water supply would be stopped from the midnight of February 28, a final decision would be taken by higher officials with the likely involvement of the chief minister’s office, said sources.
PHED officials asked residents not to panic. “If we stop water supply, say on the midnight of February 28, it will resume on March 1 morning. There will be no supply on the evening of March 1 and the morning of March 2. We would try to restore partial supply by March 2 evening. Water supply would be completely normal from March 3 morning. These dates are tentative and can be confirmed only after the proposal is cleared,” said Jain.
Sufficient water would be stored at the 102 pump houses and storage facilities of PHED across the city, assured the officials. Tail-end areas where water supply is done through tankers would get their daily supply for these 48 hours, they added.
“We have appealed households having PHED pipelines to stop wastage and store water for these 48 hours. A maximum of two to three supplies would be affected. PHED does not have a network to supply additional water on tankers at each and every household of Jaipur,” said a senior PHED official.
During this shutdown, PHED would carry out minor and major repairing jobs everywhere in Jaipur to keep the drinking water network steady before the peak summer months.
This is going to be the first time in years when water supply to entire Jaipur would be affected.
The Bisalpur II project, which aims at supplying an additional 216 MLD water to Jaipur, is nearing completion. PHED is not replacing the main pipeline of this project.
It would install a pumphouse with nine pumps at Renwal, around 11 kms from PHED’s storage cum main pumping station at Balawala in Sanganer.
“We have to cut the main pipeline and connect its one end to the inflow pipes and the other end to the outflow pipes of the new pump house. The two ends of the main pipeline need to be sealed after the cuts. For this we need around 48 hours as we need to wait till the pipeline becomes dry after water supply is stopped. This type of pipelines cannot be cut until and unless they are completely dry,” PHED superintendent engineer Satish Jain told TOI.
Although PHED had proposed that water supply would be stopped from the midnight of February 28, a final decision would be taken by higher officials with the likely involvement of the chief minister’s office, said sources.
PHED officials asked residents not to panic. “If we stop water supply, say on the midnight of February 28, it will resume on March 1 morning. There will be no supply on the evening of March 1 and the morning of March 2. We would try to restore partial supply by March 2 evening. Water supply would be completely normal from March 3 morning. These dates are tentative and can be confirmed only after the proposal is cleared,” said Jain.
Sufficient water would be stored at the 102 pump houses and storage facilities of PHED across the city, assured the officials. Tail-end areas where water supply is done through tankers would get their daily supply for these 48 hours, they added.
“We have appealed households having PHED pipelines to stop wastage and store water for these 48 hours. A maximum of two to three supplies would be affected. PHED does not have a network to supply additional water on tankers at each and every household of Jaipur,” said a senior PHED official.
During this shutdown, PHED would carry out minor and major repairing jobs everywhere in Jaipur to keep the drinking water network steady before the peak summer months.
