SMC employs 85 permanent dewatering stations, 115 mobile pumping units for dewatering submerged areas
Srinagar, May 13 (KNB): The Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K.Pole today toured various Dewatering stations including lalchowk, Rajbagh. Sonwar, Gogji bagh,, Radio Kashmir, Jawahar Nagar, and other dewatering stations to review dewatering exercise in view of rainfall.
Divisional Commissioner who was accompanied by Commissioner SMC Gazanfar Ali, S.E Drainage along with Executive Engineers Drainage circle and other officers inspected the functioning of various stationed dewatering stations and portable mobile pumps across the city.
He directed SMC to press into service more mobile pumps across the city, particularly at the vulnerable points for carrying out speedy dewatering operation of submerged areas.
During the tour, a live demonstration of high capacity dewatering pumps with ranging capacity from 2 lac to 5 lac litres per hour per unit was presented before Divisional Commissioner.
Notably, SMC has procured 12 of these high capacity dewatering units and are already put to use at most inundated points.
Regarding status of dewatering operations across the city, Commissioner SMC informed Divisional Commissioner that SMC men and machines are working round the clock to ensure dewatering operations are carried out in speedy way and civilians don’t face any inconvenience in their movement.
The SMC has put in place all the permanent pumping stations that work round the clock and 85 permanent dewatering stations having capacity of 1300 cusecs and 115 moblie pumping units with a capacity ranging from 75000 litres to 5 lac litres per unit are in place to dewater inundated areas, SMC Commissioner informed.
“Mobile dewatering pumps have also been set up at different points in the city. There will be no submergence where these pump stations are working. They function round the clock,” SMC commissioner said.
To augument the dewatering efforts,
SMC has employed sucker machines and high pressure mobile dewatering units for quick results.
Divisional Commissioner was also briefed about the present scenario of drainage networking higlighting low lying and vulnerable areas and was briefed about the various ongoing drainage schemes and the future plans in drainage networking as well for lasting solution to solve the problem.