Three demo sanitation projects installed for houseboat owners

DAL CLEANING: Vice Chairman, J&K Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA), Mr. Irfan Yasin has said that in order to keep Dal lake clean, all the houseboat owners have been directed to make proper sanitation arrangements for which three pilot sanitation systems have been installed for demonstration. Slubh International has offered low-cost sanitation systems for houseboats as well as Dal dwellers living in the lake, the Vice Chairman added.
Mr. Yasin said the government has banned further registration of houseboats and added the number of houseboats in the lake has gone down. He said LAWDA regularly carries out dwelling operations in the lake both manually as well as mechanically and about 70,000 cubic millimetre of wet weed was removed from the lake, out of which 45,000 cubic millimetre were removed manually during 2008. The spring operation for removal of weeds during 2009 has been started in May 2009 and is currently on.
The Vice Chairman said the water chemistry of the lake is regularly being monitored by the Research & Monitoring Wing of the Authority as well as the State Pollution Control Board and no presence of high-level heavy metals in the lake waters has been reported so far.