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DJB starts working on action plan for Yamuna sewage treatment
The Delhi Jal Board has started working on a plan to implement the "interceptor sewage" report of an expert committee to clean the river Yamuna with the Supreme Court giving it the go-ahead.
"By July 2007, we will submit our action plan in the apex court regarding the details of measures to cleanse the river," DJB Chief Executive Officer Arun Mathur told reporters on Wednesday.
He said the plan would be executed in a phased manner and hoped that it would be complete before the 2010 Commonwealth Games to held in the city.
He said the proposed technology was "an innovative solution" envisaging interception of smaller drains before they flow into bigger drains.
One of the focus areas of the programme is installation of systems to intercept sewage on the three major drains of Delhi - Najagarh, Shahadara and Supplementary drains.
"These three drains carry over 75 per cent of the city's sewage," he said. By putting intercepting sewage treatment plants in front of these drains, a major part of the untreated effluents could be taken care of, Mathur said.
The capacity of sewage treatment plants attached to the two main drains emptying into the Yamuna at ITO would also be enhanced, he said.
According to government figures, more than 249 million litres of industrial waste is emptied into the Yamuna in Delhi every day.
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