Wastewater/sewerage

National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP) is adopted by Government of India in October 2008 to address the issues of urban sanitation and Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). To support NUSP, Gesellschaft fur international Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is awarded contract for consultancy services for the “Preparation of discharge for canal side settlements in Cochin” behalf of Cochin Municipal Corporation.

Our assignments

Preparation of report on Discharge register for canal side settlements along 1.2 km of Kalvarthy Rameswarm canal in Cochin

Preparation of report on Functional and conditional assessment of septic tanks in slum area at Rameswaram colony in Cochin

Services Provided

Understand household level water handling practices and house hold survey

Identify multiple wastewater streams from households in pilot area

Flow measurements in selected drains and main canal

Functional and conditional assessment of septic tanks in pilot area

Determination of physical, chemical and biological characteristics of grey water, septage and canal water various locations like ten locations in drains, thirty locations at septic tanks and one location at slum area.

Mapping of point source and non-point source of pollution in the pilot canal stretch

Integrating sanitation databases with existing municipal databases

Compilation of all the output data with GIS mapping.

Client: Corporation of Cochin

Funding Agency: GIZ (Gesellschaft fur International Zusammenarbeit)

Year: December 2012-June 2013