Place of visit- Shimpoli sewage pumping station, Borivali ( West)

Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika

Date and Time of Visit : 28/10/2023 at 11.30 am

Objectives of Visit : To study the working method of sewage (waste water)

treatment plant of Shimpoli pumping station

I , Shri Deepak Eknath Parab, student of All India Institute Of Local self
Government, Mumbai, LGS- DLP ( 2023-24) batch, visited the Shimpoli
Pumping station on 28/10/2023 at 11.30 am. Where Smt Pallavi Patil, Junior
Engineer, greeted me and provided the below information about the pumping
station.

As per guide lines provided by the World Health Organization, waste water
and sewage water is injurious to health. Because of this Brihanmumbai Municipal
corporation constructed many pumping station in several area where sewage water
brought through underground pipes for the processing of waste water .There are
seven zones in Mumbai for the processing of waste water. They are 1. Colaba , 2.
Dadar, 3.Bandra, 4. Versova, 5. Ghatkoper, 6. Bhandup, 7.Malad. Out of that
Colaba, Bandra, and Love grove pumping station easily drain waste water after
processing into the deep sea. Whereas other station collect the sewage water,
removes floating material and passed on the water to other pumping station for
process . After processing it send thrown deep into the sea. This project at
shimpoli is started from year 1988.

Incoming Chamber

The sewage water from the surrounding area of the pumping station, mostly from
the Borivali (west) area, brought into this plant through the big pipe line which is
connected to the sewage network of the city. All the sewage water is brought in a
chamber known as ‘Incoming Chamber
The sewage water collected in this chamber is passed on Screen Chamber

Screen Chamber

The sewage water from incoming chamber is screened here , i.e. floating material
like plastic bag, bottle, Thermacol and solid waste .This solid waste is removed
manually and collected in easy bins and handed over to SWM department’s
garbage collection vehicles.
Wet Well
After screening the sewage waer passed on to next chamber known as wet well
where water accumulated. There are 3 wet well having depth of 18 mtr from there
sewage water passed on to dry well

Dry Well

There are 8 pumps with 75hp power are fitted to deliver the sewage water thorugh
delivery line in Raising Mainline . Each pump work 20 hours daily . The capacity
of throwing each pump is 208 mld /day. In actual it pump 150 mld water everyday
where as in monsoon season it pump upto 190 mld. The raising mainline are
connected to Gravity main or Force main. These Gravity main through sewage
water into the deep sea or another pumping station . The sewage water from this
pumping station is passed on to Malad Sewage pumping station where it is treated
and disposed deep into the sea.