Spare Tallah water pipes, CMC tells bridge team
The pipes that carry water from the 110-year-old Tallah water tank to nearly half of Calcutta cannot be disturbed when the Tallah bridge will be rebuilt, engineers of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation have told their counterparts in the PWD.
Eight pipes carry around 230 million gallons of water every day from the reservoir to large parts of north, central and south Calcutta (till Bhowanipore). Six of them are on the eastern side of the existing bridge, and one each to the west and north.
A ninth pipe is on standby. Plus, there are three pipes through which the north Calcutta reservoir gets its supply from the water treatment plant in Palta, in North 24-Parganas. The inlets are all to the north of the bridge.
