HYDERABAD, Aug 17: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that the sewerage system of Hyderabad has been totally modernised and hoped that it will be able to withstand heavy rains.

He was speaking at an inaugural ceremony of LD-4 pumping station in Latifabad unit No.10.

Mr Jamil said that following the heavy rains in September last year the district government had installed a massive and modernised sewerage system in just a year as new pumping stations had been constructed and the disposal capacity of the existing pumping stations had been increased by 500 per cent and at some places by 1,000 per cent.

He said, with the construction of LD-4 pumping station, Sheedi goth, Shoro goth and Hali road pumping stations the sewerage system can now withstand heavy rains and added that there was no need of installing temporary pumping stations to dispose of rainwater.

He said that the subterranean water level in Hyderabad had also created an alarming situation which can be gauged from the fact that while 60MGD water was being supplied to the citizens, only 30MGD water found its way to the sewerage system.

He said with the modernisation of sewerage system this menace which was posing threat to huge buildings will also be eliminated.

Giving technical details about the LD-4 pumping station, the Managing Director Wasa, Abdul Maalik Khatri, said that an amount of Rs200 million had been spent on this project which would facilitate 180,000 people living in unit No.9 Sadaat Colony, unit No.10 and unit No.11 and adjoining areas.