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Silt from Uttarakhand flash floods shuts 2 Ganga water plants
Noida: Ganga water supply to parts of Noida and Ghaziabad may be disrupted after massive silt deposits forced the shutdown of Pratap Vihar and Siddharth Vihar water treatment plants (WTPs) on Friday.
Officials said flash floods at Dharali in Uttarakhand washed heavy silt downstream to the Bhimgoda Barrage in Haridwar, spiking turbidity levels to around 8,000—far above the potable water threshold of less than 1. The excessive silt rendered raw water unsuitable for treatment, leading to the closure of the 120 MLD Pratap Vihar WTP and the 240 MLD Siddharth Vihar WTP.
"The Upper Ganga Canal in Haridwar was reopened on Friday evening, so we expect raw water from Haridwar to reach Ghaziabad by Saturday evening, after which it will be treated and supplied," UP Jal Nigam assistant engineer Mukesh Kumar Verma said.
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Until then, Noida and Ghaziabad will rely on groundwater sources, tube wells, and Ranney wells. Ghaziabad's daily demand is 371 MLD, with around 264 MLD normally met through Ganga water. Noida's requirement is about 407 MLD, of which 240 MLD comes from Ghaziabad's WTPs.
The outage is already being felt in residential sectors. "We received 50% less water on Thursday evening, and today, no water was supplied to sectors 119 and 120," president of Noida Highrise Federation (100x Sectors) Nikhil Singhal said. "Over one lakh residents in the 100x sectors are affected. Authorities have no backup plan, and we had to order 10 water tankers today."
This is the second disruption in nine days. On July 31, the Pratap Vihar plant was flooded after heavy rain, halting operations.
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