To make the Thane station complex a ‘zero sewage, zero effluent’ premises, the Central Railway (CR) will now save 40,000 litres of water on a daily basis at Thane railway station. It will be done with a sewage treatment plant that will start functioning today.
Every day, the plant will recycle 5,00,000 litres of sewage and will generate 40,000 litres of reusable water, along with 100 kg of compost per month. The recycled water will then be used for gardening and in toilets.
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According to a senior CR officer, the water treatment plant has been set up by a private firm as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project. “Sewage will pass through the bar screen chamber where floating particles and debris will be trapped and then pass through an O&G Trap. The oil-free effluent overflows to the collection cum equalisation tank where it collects to provide a constant flow to the next system.”
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