Hindustan Zinc today said it will expand its sewage treatment capacity by setting up an additional plant at estimated cost of Rs 80 crore in Udaipur.
Hindustan Zinc will sign an agreement with Udaipur Smart City Limited to set-up another 40 million litres per day (MLD) capacity sewage treatment plant (STP) in Udaipur, the company said in a statement.
Hindustan Zinc, India's largest integrated zinc-lead- silver producer had already commissioned a 20 MLD STP in Udaipur in 2014. With the additional commissioning of 40 MLD STP, the total capacity of STP will be now 60 MLD, the company said.
"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 decentralised 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," Hindustan Zinc CEO Sunil Duggal said.
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 has been shortlisted as one of the Smart Cities 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 company said the construction of the plants will be based on Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) process and have a provision for re-use of 50 per cent treated water for Udaipur city.
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