SCADA system for North 24 Pgs arsenic area: Rural water supply scheme at Mongal Pandey water treatment plant

  • 31/03/2007

  • Journal of the Institution of Public Health Engineers

Author describes a success story of implementing a distributed SCADA system first time in India in a rural water supply scheme of PHED, Govt. of West Bengal for arsenic prone areas. The project consists of a 7.5 MGD capacity water treatment plant, two booster stations and fourteen overhead reservoirs, distributed over vast areas to supply arsenic free potable drinking water to a population of about 7.4 millions covering 369 sq. km area.