Tank Bund Road to open today in Hyderabad
Pipeline laying works to start on Kavadiguda road
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-05-31 00:51 GMT
Hyderabad: The Hussainsagar road will be opened for traffic on the afternoon of May 31. Work to install a part of the 4-km ring pipeline has been completed and the road will be handed over to the traffic department, Water Board officials said on Saturday. The next block would be on the Kavadiguda road, which would be cut to lay the pipe. The complete diversion of the Kukatpally nala away from the Hussainsagar will take three months.
The pipeline laying work has been divided into four phases. In the first, a 650-metre pipeline of 1,600-millimetre diameter is being laid from the Prakashnagar intercept and diversion structure to the P.V. Narasimha Rao Ghat on the Necklace Road. In the second phase, a 1,000-metre- 2,200-mm dia-meter pipeline would be laid from PV Ghat to the GHMC Herbal Park. A similar pipeline is being laid from the park to Buddha Bhavan as part of Package 3.
And a final 200-metre pipeline would be laid from Buddha Bhavan till near the Marriott Hotel. Water Board officials said they had completed laying the pipeline near Buddha Bhavan within the stipulated time. Following this, the Kavadiguda road will be cut to lay the pipeline to reach the Hussainsagar surplus nala at Lower Tank Bund.
“So far, the traffic police has not given us permission to begin road cutting. The Kavadiguda road will be closed once the alternative routes are planned,” a Water Board officer said.
The pipeline will divert all the water into the Hussainsagar surplus nala, which will then flow through Ashoknagar, Baghlingampally, Vidya nagar and enter the Amberpet sewerage treatment plant from where it will be let out into the Musi river.
Once the pipeline is laid, untreated sewerage from Kukatpally and Balanagar will be released into the Kalasiguda nala instead of Hussainsagar. The discharge of polluted water entering Hussainsagar has fallen as a result of temporary diversions made to the Kukatpally nala.