BORDA

BORDA
FACT SHEET - DEWATS AT ISOLATION HOSPITAL
Isolation Hospital staff quarters - Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

Project background
Isolation Hospital staff quarters is situated next to the outer ring road near Subhash
Nagar in Kolhapur with a population about 125 people. 2 rows of staff quarters are
located in front of Isolation Hospital. 5 numbers of single storied building with
population of 25 peoples in first row and in second row, two storied building with
population of 100 people. The DEWATS unit is constructed and maintained by the
Kolhapur Muncipal Corporation.

Salient Features
Source
Design capacity
No of users
Peak flow
Influent quality
Effluent quality

: Toilets, bathrooms,
Laundry, kitchen and
urinals
: 10 cmt / day
: 125
: 8h
: BOD 300 mg/l
: N/A

Kind of Project : DEWATS

Funding agency : Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) & BORDA
IImplementing agency : Indian Institute of Youth Welfare ( IIYW)
Supporting Organisation : Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination [ CDD] Society
Construction Period : 6 months
Construction Cost : Rs. 16 lakhs

Purpose
Safe disposal of wastewater.
To improve deteriorating environmental and hygienic conditions due to absence of
wastewater treatment or appropriate disposal.
Reuse for gardening / discharge in to open drain.
To reduce the environmental pollution

System in brief
The wastewater streams are channeled from all the sources and collected in a
common register near the treatment system, which consists of 4 modules : Settler,
Baffled reactor, Planted gravel filter and Collection tank.
1. Settler is a sedimentation tank for retaining particles by settling over a specific time
frame.
2. Baffle reactor ensures anaerobic degradation of suspended and dissolved solids
by mixing fresh wastewater with an active sludge blanket.
3. Planted gravel filter is used as tertiary treatment unit where aerobic and facultative
degradation of dissolved organic occurs.
4. The collection tank is used to store the treated water

Modules adopted
DEWATS Unit
Settler-1
Volume
Area of construction
No. Of chambers
Settler-2
Volume
Area of construction
No. Of chambers
Baffle reactor
Volume
Area of construction
No. of chambers
Anaerobic Filter
Volume
Area of construction
No. Of chambers
Planted gravel filter
Volume
Area of construction
Filter material used
Plants used
Colacasia
Collection Tank
Volume
Area of construction
Built up area

: 3.0 m3
: 3.2 m2
: 2
: 4.4 m3
: 4.3 m2
: 2
: 13.2 m3
: 13.6 m2
: 5
: 9.0 m3
: 7.7 m2
: 3
:
:
:
:

36.0 m3
80.0 m2
Gravel
Reed juncas,

: 5.3 m3
: 9.0 m2
: 1460.0 m2

Project no - 611171

Update 05/01/2009

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Typical drawing

Settler

Planted Gravel Filter

Baffled Reactor

Operation and maintenance

The wastewater treatment plant is operated and maintained by the trained members of KMC. A regular schedule is followed
for maintenance, like periodical check sewer line systems, removal of sludge in settler and in baffled reactor. In the planted
gravel filter regular harvesting of plants is done and the filter media is washed once in five years.
Cost incurred for O & M per annum is approximately Rupees 8,000/-

Reuse options
Reuse of treated water for irrigation & gardening.

Monitoring results
Monitoring of wastewater flow and quality will be carried out by IIYW in January 2008.
Sample points

COD BOD TSS

E.coli
mg/l mg/l mg/l CFU/100ml

08.01.2008

Outlet to drain*
DATE OF
Inlet to plant
Inlet ABR
Inlet PGF
Outlet to drain*

SAMPLING:
176 51
208 65
144 43
96
30

08-01-2008
335
415
267
178

Sample points

500
400
COD

300

BOD
200

TSS

100
0
Inlet to plant

Inlet ABR

Inlet PGF

Outlet to
drain*

Concentration m g/L

* Final effluent quality

Project photos

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