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Big push to rejuvenate city lakes
The city lakes are poised to get a facelift. The Lake Protection Committee (LPC) comprising GHMC, HMDA and Irrigation department has decided to adopt the ‘Natural Wet Land System’ and connect all feeder channels of the lakes.
Hyderabad: The city lakes are poised to get a facelift. The Lake Protection Committee (LPC) comprising GHMC, HMDA and Irrigation department has decided to adopt the ‘Natural Wet Land System’ and connect all feeder channels of the lakes.
The system allows treatment of sewage through natural aeration technique using large algal pond and aquatic plants. The experiment yielded tremendous results, besides completely rejuvenating the polluted lakes in Bengaluru.
According to officials, the Lake Protection Committee will adopt the system and rejuvenate lakes in the phased manner. A senior GHMC official, who is also part of the committee, told The Hans India that under the system, authorities would construct a pond which will be of 20 per cent in size of the lake.
He said the all feeder channels entering the lake would be connected and the bio-filters will remove toxic substances that have come from pesticides, industrial discharges, and mining activities so that contaminated water does not enter the lake.
The official further said that the ‘Natural Wet Land System’ would also minimise the growth of hyacinth in the lakes. He said that the programme would be taken as part of lakes beautification project. He said that the HMDA, GHMC and Mission Kakatiya funds will be utilised to take up the project. He said the system will help the lakes to get facelift permanently at much cheaper cost.
The Lake Protection Committee will adopt the system in three phases for about 1,200 small and big lakes under the HMDA jurisdiction. About 200 major lakes will be rejuvenated in phase I and remaining would be followed in the next two phases.
By Maddy Deekshith
