Mumbai: As the fate of reconstruction of the BMC’s Malabar hill water reservoir hangs in balance, the civic body on Friday urged citizens and experts to offer their suggestions on the methodology to be adopted for its reconstruction for the consideration of an expert committee .
Those interested have been asked to email their suggestions at mhriit.suggestion@gmail.com.The public suggestions can be sent within 15 days from the date of publishing the email ID which is December 1,2023.
BMC said that the Malabar hill reservoir has been reliably serving as the lifeline of south Mumbai for the past 136 years. The reservoir was constructed in 1887 below the present-day Phiroz Shah Mehta Garden, popularly known as the Hanging Garden, and caters to the increasing water demand of south Mumbai.
“After about one-and-a- a-half centuries of dedicated service, the ageing infrastructure of Malabar hill reservoir bears signs of natural deterioration,” the BMC said in a statement. Substantial water leakage has become a matter of concern, so the BMC undertook an ambitious mission to reconstruct the reservoir, the statement said.
This reconstruction proposal affects 389 trees. However, as citizens and NGOs have expressed their concerns about cutting of trees and demanded to find an alternative solution, the BMC has constituted an expert committee comprising professors from IIT-Bombay, BMC officials and local experts to review the proposal of reconstruction of the reservoir. The Rs 698-crore plan to rebuild the reservoir was finalised after a structural audit exposed its weaknesses. The reservoir, located at one of the highest points in south Mumbai, is designed to distribute water by force of gravity. TOI in its September 25 edition reported how the Hanging Garden could be out of bounds for years once work begins on the reservoir.
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Those interested have been asked to email their suggestions at mhriit.suggestion@gmail.com.The public suggestions can be sent within 15 days from the date of publishing the email ID which is December 1,2023.
BMC said that the Malabar hill reservoir has been reliably serving as the lifeline of south Mumbai for the past 136 years. The reservoir was constructed in 1887 below the present-day Phiroz Shah Mehta Garden, popularly known as the Hanging Garden, and caters to the increasing water demand of south Mumbai.
“After about one-and-a- a-half centuries of dedicated service, the ageing infrastructure of Malabar hill reservoir bears signs of natural deterioration,” the BMC said in a statement. Substantial water leakage has become a matter of concern, so the BMC undertook an ambitious mission to reconstruct the reservoir, the statement said.
This reconstruction proposal affects 389 trees. However, as citizens and NGOs have expressed their concerns about cutting of trees and demanded to find an alternative solution, the BMC has constituted an expert committee comprising professors from IIT-Bombay, BMC officials and local experts to review the proposal of reconstruction of the reservoir. The Rs 698-crore plan to rebuild the reservoir was finalised after a structural audit exposed its weaknesses. The reservoir, located at one of the highest points in south Mumbai, is designed to distribute water by force of gravity. TOI in its September 25 edition reported how the Hanging Garden could be out of bounds for years once work begins on the reservoir.
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