For seamless water supply in Mumbai, BMC to install additional transformers at Pise pumping station

“At present, there are three transformers and now we will increase the power supply capacity by adding two more. This will lead to unhindered water supply in Mumbai whenever such a similar situation of power outage is reported in the station,” an official of the hydraulics engineering department in BMC said.

After the blaze broke out, all the 20 pumps in the station had to be shut down and for the next 24 hours, the BMC supplied water to Mumbai at a 30 per cent deficit. Civic officials said that the current 15 per cent cut will continue till all three existing transformers become operational again. At present, two transformers are operational.

“If proper damage control was not done following the fire incident, entire Mumbai would have experienced 50 per cent water cut,” the official said.

At present, the BMC has commissioned the design and layout of the new transformers and civic officials said that the tenders will be floated next month.

The Pise pumping station is one of the major nodal centres for water supply in Mumbai, which pumps water to the Golanji, Fosbery, Raoli, and Bhandarwada reservoirs in Mumbai, from where water is supplied to households. Most of the areas that receive water from these reservoirs include Bhendi Bazaar, Dongri, Byculla, Sion, Kurla, Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Bhandup and Mulund.