Hyderabad: Nala to be delinked from Hussainsagar in March

Hyderabad: The cleaning of Hussainsagar is to be taken up after the Kukatpally nala is diverted away from the lake. The Sewerage Board has been given a deadline of June 2016 to complete the diversion.

Mr M. Konda Reddy, director Project-II, of the Sewerage Board said that the Kukatpally div-ersion including the underground tunnelling had been completed and the nala flow would be diverted by the first week of March.

“After this there would be zero discharge of sewerage or chemical effluents into the tank,” he said. The Hussainsagar receives 35 MLD of treated water from the sewerage treatment plants at Picket and Khairatabad.

Work on laying the pipeline was put on hold till the traffic police gave its approval permission. Water from the Kukat-pally nala will now bypass the lake and end up at the Amberpet STP and then drain into the Musi, Mr Konda Reddy said.

At Durgam Cheruvu, the officer said, work was nearing completion on all the three pipelines to divert sewerage from entering the lake. He said that from mid-March, no sewerage would enter the Secret Lake. GHMC and HMDA will clean up the lake.

An Austrian team that visited the city last year had made a presentation to GHMC that  included its project that cleaned up the Vienna Danube lake by diverting dirty water.

The lake was converted to a recreational space and the surrounding area was developed as a business centre. The government is studying its suggestions.