DOMBIVLI: Residents of Dombivli East will once again face a water shortage, with supply to large parts of the area set to be shut for about 16 hours on Tuesday, November 3. The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) will use the shutdown to repair a leak in the main pipeline carrying water from its Netivali water purification centre.
Water supply from the Netivali centre to Dombivli East will remain completely stopped from 8 am to midnight on Tuesday, while the repair work is carried out.
Leak in 1,100 mm main line
KDMC’s water supply department supplies water to Dombivli East from its 150 MLD water purification centre at Netivali. A leak has been found in the 1,100 mm diameter main water line of this supply system near the transport depot.
With water continuously leaking from the pipeline, the department has decided to take the shutdown to stop the leakage and complete the repairs.
Store water in advance
Shailesh Malekar, executive engineer of the KDMC water supply department, has appealed to residents to store enough water before the shutdown.
Even after supply resumes once the repairs are done, it may take some time for water pressure and supply to return to normal, so residents have been asked to use water carefully.
MIDC residents seek 24+12-hour split of 36-hour cut
Meanwhile, representatives of residents of the Milapnagar residential area in Dombivli MIDC held another meeting with MIDC executive engineer Shrikant Raut over the area’s water problem.
At the meeting, held at the MIDC office, the residents opposed the 36-hour continuous water shutdown and repeated their demand that the cut be split into two phases of 24 hours and 12 hours on different days.
The residents’ representatives had first put forward the 24+12-hour option at a previous meeting with MIDC officials. Raut told them the proposal had been placed before the Water Resources Department and MIDC’s senior office, but no decision has been taken on it so far.