PALANPUR: Water supply to nearly 180 villages and areas falling under five municipalities will be suspended from Thursday midnight for two days for major repair work in the pipeline.Water supply will remain suspended till Saturday to Siddhapur, Visanagar, Unjha, Kheralu, and Vadnagar in Mehsana and 180 villages attached to them till the damaged valve is replaced. The valve connects Kohoda with Dharoi main pipeline near Gaglasan village of Siddhapur in Patan. Supply of water will be restored as soon as the repair work was over, said Nirav Solanki, chief engineer of water supply and sewage board, Ahmedabad zone. “We took up the repair work now so as to avoid water hardship to these people during midsummer,” he explained.Almost every alternate year, supply of water from the nearly two decades old Dharoi dam gets suspended as a routine issue and no action has been initiated so far.Explaining the reason behind frequent trippings, superindent engineer of Mehsana division, Sulbhaben Sambhvani said that water supply to North Gujarat from the Dharoi dam began in 2001, which is now about 18 years old. “Moreover, its initial capacity was 70 litre per capita when it was first made functional, while the supply capacity has now increased to 100 litre per capita! The board has been granted replacement permission of the pipelines and the work on replacement of old pipelines will be taken up section-wise on priority basis,” she said.

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