To make the Kharun river here pollution free, the Raipur Municipal Corporation has built a sewage treatment plant on the anicut to purify the polluted water, it was announced on Friday. Now the contaminated water flowing into the drain will flow into the river after treatment. Every day 60 lakh liters of dirty water will be treated, an official communication said.
Also, there will be a qualitative improvement in the bio-ecosystem of the river, it said.
A laboratory has been set up in the plant premises to monitor water quality, which includes Chemical Oxygen Demand, Biological Oxygen Demand, Total Suspended Solids and pH.
Also, three sewage plants are under construction costing Rs 261 crores under the AMRUT Mission Scheme to treat sewage of 17 drains flowing from all 70 wards of RMC area before they join the Kharun river.