Mangaluru Mayor Sudheer Shetty Kannur on November 27, said the Mangaluru City Corporation will install two 60 HP pump-sets at its Pachchanadi Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to pump secondary treated sewage downstream the Maravoor Vented Dam built across Phalguni (Gurupura) river.
Speaking to reporters during his visit to the STP, from where considerable quantity of treated/ untreated sewage was flowing into the vented dam, Mr. Kannur said the Corporation has already laid a pipeline from the STP to downstream of the dam to discharge secondary treated sewage.
However, the sewage was not flowing through the pipeline by gravity and hence MCC decided to construct a pump-house with two 60 HP pumps to pump about 2.5 million litres per day (MLD) of treated sewage into the river. Once the pumps are commissioned, there would be no complaint of the treated sewage joining the vented dam, a source of drinking water for many villages around Mangaluru.
