Railways plans to build reservoirs in Bullet train depots for water harvesting

New Delhi (Urban Transport News): The Indian railway is all set to start its high-speed corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. With this, they also plan to create train maintenance depots (Bullet Train depots) at Sabarmati and Surat in Gujarat and Thane in Mumbai to harvest water. In a first, railways is ready to make reservoirs in its bullet depots to store fresh water which might be utilized in the upkeep of the high-speed trains, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), implementing agency for the project, said in a statement on Tuesday.

The move comes at a time once components of the country ar reeling underneath severe water crisis. The railways’ set up for its high-speed passageway between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is to make self-sustaining depots at Sabarmati and Surat in Gujarat and Thane in Mumbai so water needn't be sourced from outside. Explaining about the plan, Sushma Gaur, Public Relations Officer of NHSRCL said,

The water demand of the depots are going to be met by the reservoirs created inside the depot space. rain are going to be fed into these reservoirs and treated through the treatment plants established within the depot. Recharge pits also will be created for recharging water heater to the world.

Water Harvesting Plan

All railway depots have fresh water gather pits to store water. Generally, about 12,000 to 14,000 litres of water is required for cleanness of one rake consisting of 22-24 rail coaches. The Sabarmati depot are the biggest or the ‘mother depot’ with a part of concerning eighty hectares. It'll have progressive instrumentation for normal maintenance of trains with scrutiny bays, laundry plants, workshops, sheds and accommodation lines.

The operation management centre for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor will be housed during this depot, the interpreter aforesaid. Thane depot can adjoin a district of concerning sixty hectares and can have similar facilities for the maintenance of the trains, Gaur said.

Another useful depot is being planned in Surat with a district of forty four hectares. This depot can receive trains from Japan and have basic facilities for train maintenance. The depots ar being designed supported the expertise of Sendai and Kanazawa depots of Shinkansen in Japan.

Sewerage Treatment Plant

Facilities for utilisation and re-use of effluent and sewerage water will be established in depots at Thane and Surat, she said, adding bio-waste from trains are going to be collected within the trains itself and can be sequestered and treated within the depots through sewerage treatment plants. The NHSRCL has already taken measures to cut back its water necessities.

It has conjointly been determined to line up automatic coach wash plan (ACWP) plants at ten major depots to save lots of water needed for improvement trains. ACWP are equipped with associate degree effluent treatment system and water softening plant for employment water used for improvement trains and platforms.