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Wastewater
Treatment Project,
India”
Key Data:
• Footprint - 5.2ha
Project Timeline:
Key Players:
Partner Institutions
EPC 1 Contractor
EPC 2 Contractor
• "The project will provide a daily supply of 185 million litres of water."
• However, the industry has heavily polluted the groundwater with chemical
dyes; it has been said – and not entirely frivolously – that the colour of the
region's water varies with the mood of Paris fashions.
• While the need for an improved water system was clear, the challenge was
financing it. Ultimately, this required the formation of a Special Purpose
Vehicle (SPV) to access commercial funding and implement the project. In
1995, the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited (NTADCL)
was formed for the role and subsequently began the process of
international competitive tendering.
• The project itself was split into three separate contracts, two awarded on a
engineer, procure and construct (EPC) basis and one to operate and
manage (O&M) the finished facility.
• Construction began in October 2002 and the main civil / mechanical work
was completed by December 2004. Pipeline testing began in March 2005.
The water treatment plant commissioning followed the next month and
the Tirupur Municipality began receiving project water on alternate days
in October 2005, after a two month trial period. The wastewater treatment
plant was originally scheduled for completion in October 2005, but was
delayed until February 2006 by a heavy monsoon and floods.
• "The system serves nearly 1,000 textile units and over 1.6 million residents
in Tirupur and its surrounding areas."
• The fully operational system serves nearly 1,000 textile units and over 1.6
million residents in Tirupur and its surrounding areas.
• Around 2,000 lorries make seven to ten trips a day to supply water to the
textile industry. Households get water supply for two hours on alternate
days.
• The wastewater facility takes domestic sewage only and uses an activated
sludge system to achieve secondary treatment standards. The plant
discharges into Noyyal river. Initially built with a capacity of 15 million
litres per day, its design allows eventual expansion to double that, when
sewer provision is extended to the remaining 15 of the town's 52 wards.
• Once the construction work was completed and the master balancing
reservoir linked to the distribution network, Mahindra Water Utilities' 30-
year O&M contract came into effect.
Key players:
• NTADCL was the SPV and project sponsor. The EPC1 contractor was the
Hindustan Construction Company, with a Mahindra & Mahindra / Larsen
& Toubro joint venture responsible for the EPC2 contract. The O&M
contractor is Mahindra Water Utilities Ltd - a Mahindra/United Utilities
JVC.