24-hour shutdown will be put in place from April 10 to April 11 to facilitate various works, including the maintenance work of the Bhokarpada Water Treatment Plant and the Morbe Dam to Digha main pipeline. As a result, there won't be any water supply in the jurisdiction of the NMMC as well as in Kharghar and Kamothe.
NMMC's executive engineer for water supply notified the people that the water cut has been undertaken due to several works in city. The works are the Panvel-Karjat double railway line at Chikhale, pipeline work at Kalamboli under the Expressway bridge, work at the water purification centre at Bhokarpada and maintenance of the Morbe-Dighe pipeline.NMMC said that the water supply will be disrupted from 10 am on Monday to 10 am on Tuesday, according to the notice and it cautioned that areas from Dighe to Kamothe will not receive water.
Maintenance work on the Bhokarpada Water Treatment Plant and the Morbe Dam to Digha Main Pipeline will be done, as well as shifting the Morbe main pipeline at Chikhale for the Karjat-Panvel Railway line and crossing the water supply mainline at the Diva-Panvel Railway line below the Expressway bridge at Kalamboli. So, there will be a shutdown from the Bhokarpada water Treatment plant from April 10 morning 10.00 am to April 11, morning 10.00 am. Therefore, the water supply in the NMMC area as well as in Kamothe and Kharghar will remain closed from Monday, April 10 evening to Tuesday 11 morning. In addition, the water supply will be at low pressure on Tuesday evening.