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Bellandur Lake has great potential to be developed on the lines of Lake Interlarken in Switzerland! 3. I guess as a catchment area for rainwater and sewage / grey water runoffs from the city 4. Lots can be done if BBMP / BWSSB / LDA etc have the will and guts (?) to take bold steps. Technology has made it possible to install self cleaning mechanisms which run on solar energy. No chemicals and minimal maintenance. Proposals are with BBMP, but nobody wants to lift a little finger. You should drop in one day at the CE's office in Utility building - 9th floor where lift is invariably not in operation! It is like a ghost office. No one comes and the standard answer by a lone peon is that they have all gone on inspection! What improvement can take place with such apathy? 2 person Dear Sri Akhilesh, I thank you for your mail. My Name is T.Sampath Kumar. Bellandur lake is fully polluted with the untreated sewage dumped by BMP and BWSSB. Earlier it was a fishing lake. The lake can be rectified by proper treatment. We have a product called NUALGI that can help growth of Diatoms in any water. The growth of diatoms produces Oxygen inside the water by photosynthesis. The oxygen helps aerobic bacteria breakdown the sewage and organics and converts it as food for fishes. The entire lake can be cleaned up economically. Please see our web page www.nualgi.com/new for full details . You can also see the documentary called "The diatom story" in youtube.
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importance of bellandur lake Bellandur Lake is the biggest water body in Bangalore. In our metro we are depending heavily water bodies as wet lands in Nitrogen cycling. Bellandur Lake thus plays an important role in this cycle as a natural wetland. The three main streams of sewage are 1. 2. 3. Koramangala Chellaghatta valley through Bellandur Lake (384-500MLD) Hebbal Nagavara (180MLD) Vrishavabhati Valley (500MLD)

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has a strong group working on Carbon and nitrogen Cycle relevant to the city of Bangalore. It is now becoming important as per them, to examine how efficiently we are managing our C and N budgets in urban and peri-urban areas. Are these methods sustainable? These issues are dealt at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore by carrying out pioneering research on the subject.

 1. If we consider the area of Bangalore as 250sq km (the densely populated area) we get a deposition of 1500 kg N /ha/yr. This is very high deposition rate and will lead to N contamination because the deposition rate outstrips the natural processes for N cycling 2. Urban -bore well(water source) and soak-pit /sewage proximity1-9m apart 10yr exposure to 103higher bacterial load/pathogen risk -higher coliformdiarrhoeaand new pathogenic species, 15-20m travel though soil inadequate for safety 60-200 mg/L NO3 groundwaterSmaller molecules (Pharmaco-biotics) NEW Research Water composition of Bellandur Lake Water as reported in the IISc report (18 Nov 2006) shows that there are places where NO3 of ground water is above permissible limits and even greater than 150mg/L, in some places. See the attached IISc report. There are three major inlets to the Lake viz Indiranagar, Airport and Agara sides. The pictures of these inlets are good. Have a look. Attachment Size Attachment Chanakya_SessionIII_28dec02006.pdf psaram42's blog Login or register to post comments Size 569.48 KB

Comments
why is sewage going into a lake?
sanjayv - 9 Jun 2009 - 2:59pm

Something I do not understand at all - why is sewage being pumped into a lake and then treated? The valleys are designed for rainwater to flow and here you have sewage added into the mix. Now we have all these residential properties all around the lake - what water do their borewells pull out. How about the coconut plantations around? I will not have the guts to drink any water from a tender coconut dropped from a tree there. -Sanjay

The Bellandur Problem

psaram42 - 10 Jun 2009 - 6:20pm

Dear Sanjay V, As an engineer like you, I would also feel the same apprehensions one gets with the realization of some hard facts of life. Is the Bellandur lake water being polluted unnecessarily? How do the nearby properties manage to get drinking water? Let me explain with my limited knowledge:- If you read the attached research paper of IISc you have this slide:1. 2. Nitrogen and Carbon Flows through Bellandur Lake Bellandur Lake as a natural wetland

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treating wastewater ChanakyaHN

I want to impress upon you the second point viz Bellandur Lake as a natural wetland. Natural Wet Land is a land with water which plays an important role in carbon/Nitrogen cycle in natural purification of human solid waste in the sewage water. Another application is gober gas plant which we are more comfortable with. Gober gas plant is better application where we use even the gases generated as fuel. Pardon me if I am bit wrong in details.
sanjayv - 23 Sep 2009 - 7:03am

Actually, turns out that the Bellandur lake pollution and encroachment is currently in the courts. There have been several actual and threatened litigation which motivated the authorities to do whatever was done so far in term of sewage treatment plants. The current litigation sub-judice in the Lok Adalat was a result of the erstwhile Bellandur panchayat realizing its power under the Panchayati Raj act, filed a case on a host of agencies including the BWSSB to clean up the lake. Actually, it turns out that the recent order on various hospitals by the KSPCB (Pollution control board) to either setup up effluent treatment plants or close operation was a result of this ongoing litigation. Apparently, the judge threatened to throw the KSPCB chairman in jail if they did not act on the situation faster. The board promptly issued a notice to the hospitals to open the plants immediately or shut down! I will be adding some information to the gyan section covering various aspects of the problem (including the litigation) in a few days

Anathram 42 (psaram) There are 20 storms cum sewage water inlets feeding polluted water into the Bellandur Lake in total. Out of this only one inlet namely Koramangala Challaghatta (KC) valley inlet water is being treated before discharging into the Lake. There are two KC Valley Sewage Water Treatment Plants at Belur Nagasandra in Bangalore. The capacities are 216 and 30 MLD a total of 246 MLD. Lok Adakat is interacting at some stage with these Plants. Government of Karnataka is spending rupees 5 million per month on the above two treatment plants. Bangalore citizens are using about 100 lpcd (Liters per day per capita) water. The KC valley inlet storm water drain is 2.75 KM long. The water is pumped to the treatment plant on arrival. The water is treated in following various stages:1. Non biodegradable items like plastics are removed by suitable mesh sieves. This plastic waste is given out to external agencies for recycling. 2. inorganic items or grit is separated

3. Aeration plant removes Nitrogen. Provides oxygen and food for bacteria. This is known as biological treatment. 4. At Thickening tank the Bio mass in the water is thickened. Clear water is collected and fed to a collector tank and sent to Bellandur Lake through a pipe. 5. 6. 7. The thickened bio waste goes to another tank for removing some more water. The waste bio mass is dried in drying beds, a total of about 200 beds are available The waste is lifted by contract trucks.

I have no idea at this juncture about the adequacy or otherwise of this plant as far as its technology or standards. However the important point to be noted is that out of 20 inlets, only one inlet water is treated before discharging the same into the Lake. It is no surprise that Bellandur Lake is a dead Lake, because of high Nitrogen content.