Sustainability has always been the core value of
Hindustan Zinc and all its units operate on Zero Discharge. This Sewage
Treatment Plant is a significant step towards conservation of water, care for
environment and a step towards zero discharge in the lakes.
In a major
relief to the people of City of Lakes, Udaipur, Hindustan Zinc will be signing
an agreement with Udaipur Smart City Limited on 24th June 2017 to set-up another
40 million litres per day (MLD) capacity Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in
Udaipur. It will prove to be a major step towards treatment of domestic sewage
and water conservation in Udaipur.
Hindustan
Zinc, India’s largest and world’s leading integrated Zinc-Lead-Silver producer
had already commissioned a 20 MLD STP in Udaipur in 2014. With the
additional commissioning of 40 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant, the total
capacity of Sewage Treatment Plant will be now 60 MLD.
Hindustan
Zinc will be signing an agreement in this regard with Udaipur Smart City
Limited on 24th June 2017. The
ceremony of laying the foundation stone will be held on 25th June 2017.
On this investment by the company,
CEO of Hindustan Zinc, Sunil Duggal said, “The expansion in Sewage Treatment
Plant will bring the much required relief to the domestic sewage of Udaipur.
Hindustan Zinc has already commissioned Sewage Treatment Plant of 20 MLD
capacity in 2014, and currently, we are adding Sewage Treatment Plant of 40 MLD
capacity of which Sewage Treatment Plant of 25 MLD capacity will be constructed
at Eklingpura, and two decentralized Sewage Treatment Plants with combined
capacity of 15 MLD will be constructed along Ayad. The company is expected to
spend Rs. 80 crores for this project.”
Earlier
while installing the 20 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant, which was commissioned
in 2014, the company had invested Rs. 170 crores that involved expenditure
pertaining to laying the pipelines for carrying the sewage to the plant.
Udaipur city has been shortlisted
as one of the Smart Cities in India and the treatment of domestic sewage will
be a boon to the city. In addition to treating the sewage as per its capacity,
in case USCL provides more than 25 MLD of sewage, Hindustan Zinc will also
treat this sewage as per feasibility.
The construction of 40 MLD
capacity Sewage Treatment Plants will be based on Sequencing Batch Reactor
(SBR) process and have a provision for re-use of 50% treated water for Udaipur
city.
Hindustan Zinc has always been
conscious of environment and has thus pioneered in adopting clean green
technology in running its operations. Saving water has always been a focus
area for Hindustan Zinc. Hindustan
Zinc has persistent focus on minimal impact on environment and the company
practices the policy of reduce, recycle, reuse, and reclaim.Not just
treating sewage, these Sewage Treatment Plants, in the process will be generating
a large quantity of manure that will be sold to the local bodies.
In its
other projects to propagate water conservation, Hindustan Zinc has installed
Effluent Treatment Plants with Reverse Osmosis at all smelting locations
resulting in reducing fresh water foot prints of the company and also
maintaining zero discharge status. The company has also constructed its first
Adiabatic Cooling Towers (ACTs) to replace the conventional cooling towers.
Adiabatic Cooling Towers reduce water wastage and also reduce the fresh water
consumption.
Sustainability has always been the
core value of Hindustan Zinc and all its units operate on Zero Discharge. This
Sewage Treatment Plant is a significant step towards conservation of water,
care for environment and a step towards zero discharge in the lakes.
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