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3.15<br />

3.11.1. The Town System<br />

The Town System which is the oldest of the two systems, comprises a set of feeder <strong>and</strong> trunk sewers<br />

(running west to east in general), straddling the underground of the old city that draw the sewage <strong>and</strong><br />

drainage of the area, measuring about 19.3 sq. km. The trunk sewer running along the APC Ray road<br />

from north to south also functions as an intercepting sewer for the trunk sewer like the Baghbazar<br />

Street sewer, the Sovabazar Street-Grey Street sewer, the Nimtolla Ghat Street-Beadon Street<br />

sewer <strong>and</strong> the Kolutolla Street-Mirzapore Street sewer. The AJC Bose Road trunk sewer starts at<br />

Kidderpore Road close to the Hooghly river runs eastward up to Beckbagan <strong>and</strong> then turns<br />

northward to Moulali. The Lenin Sarani sewer starts near the Hooghly river runs eastward to Moulali.<br />

The three trunk sewers viz. the APC Ray Road, the AJC Bose Road <strong>and</strong> the Lenin Sarani meet at<br />

Moulali junction <strong>and</strong> the combined flow passes further eastward through a special sewer section of<br />

20ft. x 15ft.3in., known as the Town Outfall to the Palmer's Bridge Pumping Station (PBPS), which<br />

has an installed capacity of pumping 1720 cusecs. One sewer from Convent Road leads to the PBPS<br />

directly.<br />

A number of subsidiary pumping stations have been constructed within the drainage area to relieve<br />

drainage congestion in chronically waterlogged areas. These are: (1) Belgachia (2) Manicktala (3)<br />

Thanthania.<br />

It may be pointed out however that part of the Maidan area is now drained directly into Tolly's Nullah,<br />

similarly the Thanthania PS delivery sewer discharges directly into the Circular Canal.<br />

3.11.2. The Suburban System<br />

The Suburban System developed as a result of later extension of the city towards south. Total<br />

drainage area is 25.69 sq. km. In all there are six trunk sewers that convey the sewage <strong>and</strong> drainage<br />

of the area, with the help of the feeder branch <strong>and</strong> lateral sewers, to the Ballyganj Drainage Pumping<br />

Station (BDPS) with an installed capacity of 1275 cusecs. Three trunk sewers run from west to east.<br />

These run below (1) Rashbehari Avenue (2) Hazra Road, <strong>and</strong> (3) Puddapukur Road. Two trunk<br />

sewers run from north to south. These are (4) CIT Road (5) Tiljala Road. The sixth one is the one<br />

running under Park Street <strong>and</strong> drains part of the Town System area.<br />

In this system also there are a number of subsidiary pumping stations that relieve the individual<br />

chronically waterlogged areas. These are : (1) Chelta Lock PS (2) Mominpore PS (3) Jodhpur Park<br />

PS (4) Nimak Mahal PS (5) Kalighat PS. Due to some problems in the system the <strong>Storm</strong> Weather

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