GHMC begins efforts to avert water logging

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) took steps to reduce the severity of the water logging problem in around 160 locations across the city on Wednesday.

The professors of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTU-H) Dr Giridhar and Laxman Rao on Saturday submitted a study report on major water logging points and its remedial measures to the GHMC. In those lines, the GHMC engineers have started working to reduce the severity of the water logging points in the city.

JNTU experts visited major water logging points in Khairatabad, Secunderabad and Charminar zones, along with engineers concerned, on July 3 to 4 and submitted the report to the GHMC. In the report, they recommended to construct rainwater harvesting pits in 11 locations and some injection wells in various points to reduce the severity of the water logging during heavy rains in the city.

The excavation of injection bore wells has begun near Kakatiya Hills Road in Serilingampally Circle. In Kakatiya Hills, water is available at around 1,500 to 2,000 ft in the ground. In this location, 500 ft excavation works of injection bore wells are under progress.

Rainwater will fill in the injection bore wells and with that groundwater levels would come up, said executive engineer Chinna Reddy. About Rs 2 lakh is the estimated cost to dig each injection well, the engineers said.