Gurugram Civic body constructs model for harvesting rainwater in streets

Kulwinder Sandhu

Gurugram, July 12

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram has constructed an eco-friendly model of a street level rainwater harvesting system along a road in Sector 44 to tap the surplus rainwater and recharge the groundwater table, besides addressing the problem of waterlogging during the rains.

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• A pit has been drilled along a concrete road to make it environment-friendly as the road is considered to prevent the percolation of rainwater.
• Unlike the conventional rainwater harvesting pits, the new model with a storage pit has been constructed and levelled in such a way that the rain water from road/street drains on its own into it easily.

n The capacity of this street level rainwater harvesting pit is 72,000 lt.

A pit has been drilled along a concrete road to make it environment-friendly as the road is considered to prevent the percolation of rainwater. Unlike the conventional rainwater harvesting pits, the new model with a storage pit has been constructed and levelled in such a way that the rain water from road/street goes on its own into it easily.

This street level rainwater harvesting constructed by the MCG under a pilot project has incurred a cost of Rs 20 lakh, donated by RSPL Welfare Foundation under CSR funding scheme.

The capacity of this street level rainwater harvesting pit is 72,000 lt. The pipes can drain 2,500 litres of water in one hour. A total of 9 pipes of 4 inch diameter each have been bored in it. Apart from this, 2 RCC inlets of 150 mm diameter have also been installed in this system.

This rainwater harvesting system was inaugurated by Dr Balpreet Singh, Additional Commissioner of MC, Gurugram and Gaurav Singh, Additional CEO of Haryana State CSR Trust in the presence of Sushil Vajpayee President of RSPL Limited company on Thursday.

After inaugurating it, Dr Balpreet Singh stated that such rainwater harvesting systems will be set up at other places in Gurugram in the coming days so that maximum amount of rainwater could be harvested to recharge the groundwater.