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Manipuram RoB work racing towards completion

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Gigantic task: Ductile iron cement concrete coated pipes stacked along the Guntur-Vijayawada approach road to execute pipeline shifting works at Manipuram RoB in Guntur.

GUNTUR: The Road Over Bridge at Manipuram on the Guntur-Vijayawada approach road can now be completed with the long-pending 90 meters of pipeline shifting becoming a reality from Monday. If everything goes well the work on shifting pipeline would be completed by January first week. The ball will be in R&B court to complete the RoB approach road to decongest the traffic bottleneck at the bridge.

The Guntur Municipal Corporation has finally been able to track a contractor to execute the main water pipeline shifting at Manipuram Over Bridge on the Guntur-Tenali railway track. After failing thrice to get a successful bidder for about Rs.2 crore work, which was initially estimated at Rs.49 lakh four years ago, the GMC has clubbed the contract for laying a second feeder pipeline from Guntur Channel to Thakkellapadu filtration plant and Thakkellapadu to Nehru Nagar main supply pipeline.

Ductile Iron pipes specially designed for water supply and long-lasting purposes when laid underground have been stacked along the Guntur-NH-5 approach road on the Auto Nagar side of the bridge and on Monday the contractor, who would execute the work on Turnkey basis would take the final alignment and begin work, Municipal Engineer K.J. Upendra Singh told The Hindu. Soon after the Rs.2 crore work on connecting the Raghava Nagar to Nehru Nagar stretch of the main supply pipeline that is 20-years-old and leaking at several places, is completed the R&B Department can take up the second lane of the RoB approach road by building the retaining wall underneath which this pipeline currently runs.

The GMC now needs to take permission from the R&B to complete this work as the pipe would cross their road at one place and run along it to take alternative path and abandon the old pipeline under the bridge. The pipes with cement concrete lining would be welded at the joints to have minimum maintenance, he added. After this work is over the Guntur Channel to Thakkellapadu pipeline work at a cost of Rs.4 crores would also be taken up, which would bring an additional 10 million gallons a day to the treatment plant adding to existing supply of 76 MGD in the city against a demand of 120 MGD.

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