Medchal gets modern FSTP with sanitation resource park
Hyderabad: Prioritizing sanitation and health in rural areas which do not have extensive drainage systems, the Municipal Administration and Urban Development department is establishing infrastructure to ensure safe management of faecal sludge and septage. As part of scaling up the State’s Open Defecation Free status from ODF to ODF, the third Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant […]
Hyderabad: Prioritizing sanitation and health in rural areas which do not have extensive drainage systems, the Municipal Administration and Urban Development department is establishing infrastructure to ensure safe management of faecal sludge and septage.
As part of scaling up the State’s Open Defecation Free status from ODF to ODF, the third Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant (FSTP) was inaugurated by Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy in Medchal on Friday.
The FSTPs, developed for the MAUD by Priyadhar Green Environ Pvt Ltd with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) as knowledge partner, are already operational in Siddipet (20KLD capacity) and Sircilla (18 KLD) while the Medchal facility has a capacity of 10KLD. A 20KLD FSTP at Jangaon, the fourth of 18 ones that are being set up across the State, is ready for commissioning.
The FSTPs, developed in PPP mode, work on gravitational mode, thus reducing the impact on the environment. The Medchal FSTP, which was set up at a cost of Rs.1.13 crore and comes with a sanitation resource park and aesthetically done premises, will serve a population of nearly 50,000. The technology is combined biological treatment with solar sludge dying and decontamination.
The process has sludge from vacuum tankers being emptied into screen chamber which is followed by ASR where the sludge is further stabilized and homogenized. This sludge flows into sludge-drying beds by gravity, where a portion of moisture evaporates and the balance liquid comes out as percolate. The percolate is further treated and passed through sand and carbon filter for tertiary treatment and collected in a polishing pond after disinfection.
The treated water can be used for tanker washing, gardening and for irrigation as well. The dried sludge is treated in a solar pasteurization room for disinfection and then can be used as organic manure or soil conditioner, officials said.
ASCI Director (Urban Governance) V Srinivas Chary called the facility ‘another feather in the cap of the MAUD’ department and thanked MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao for prioritizing sanitation and public health.
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