Reports suggest that Kerala Water Authority may complete the Rs 201 crore project that would bring 100 MLD water to the suburbs of Kochi, by September 2013.
The project was announced in 2007 under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission but it got delayed because of some issues.
It is learnt that the authority has begun work on laying water pipeline from Piravom to Maradu where a treatment plant with a daily capacity of hundred million litre is getting ready.
Trial pits have been dug to assess underground cables in the area. Road will be blocked from Vattakunnu to Palace Square, a stretch of 1.5 km, as part of the job.
The project in which Kochi Corporation is the major stakeholder had been stonewalled after Piravom residents objected to trenching the roads for laying the pipelines as it would block their arterial road to the city.
The improvement of water supplied to the West Kochi area and adjoining local bodies from the new project would result in increased supply in the city areas, it is expected.
The work, which might require four months, involves laying steel pipes with a diameter of over one metre into two-metre-wide trenches. Of the 9.5 km, at least 5-km-long stretch on the main road needs to be dug up, and it will be taken up in stages.
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