Rangil water treatment plant

Rangil water treatment plant

Rangil water treatment plant is situated on rangil mountain of Ganderbal district about 21 km from commercial centre of Kashmir. [1] The water project was inaugurated by Omar Abdullah on 15 March 2010 and its cost was estimated as Rs 31 crore.

Construction

The project was completed by Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and was handed over to Public Health Engineering department of Kashmir on the same day.[2] The main aim of the project was to provide fresh drinking water to the people of Srinagar. The construction company under Rangil water supply project has liad 51.63 km long pipeline which has been tested for efficiency across the city.[2]

Features

The filtration plant has water storing capacity of 10 MGD (million gallons per day). The water in the plant comes from Sind River which runs through the heart of Ganderbal district.[3] The water treatment plant is also installed with electromagnetic and mechanical flow meters at the control room of the plant and at bifurcation points to regulate water supply as per demand.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ wikipamia. http://wikimapia.org/13346459/WATER-TREATMENT-PLANT-GANDERBAL-muneer
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "greaterkashmir". Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rangil water treatment in Ganderbal district". Retrieved 21 August 2014.