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Supporting cities development Mysuru climate change,
India
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Farook Chowdhury
A pre-feasibility study of climate resilient drainage, sewerage and
solid waste infrastructure for Mysuru (Mysore),
Mysuru (Mysore)
CDIA - ADB
Asian Development Bank
AdaptAsia
MM Ltd
Mott MacDonald LTD.: Teamleader, Deputy Team leader,
Social/Gender Specialist, Resettlement Specialist, Municipal Finance
Specialist, Institutional Specialist, AutoCAD Specialist
Partner(s):
Period of
Assignment
Continuous or
intermittent
From 25-Jan-2016 to 29-Jul-2016
Continuous
Staff months
Mott MacDonald LTD.: 2
Partner(s): 22
Total: 24
Background
After rapid urbanization in Mysuru from the early 1990s, the dumping
of solid waste and and lack of regular maintenance has led to
blockages in the natural drainage. Poor planning and regulating the
development within Mysuru have led to construction of houses and
formation of roads that block the free flow of water into natural drains.
This has caused considerable strain through flooding, as well as
dumping of waste, which have contributed to adverse environmental
and health issues.
The Mysuru Climate Change Resilient Strategy identified storm water
drainage as one of the vulnerable sectors due to pollution and letting
of sewage into the natural drainage system that affects water
resources and causes flooding in the city. Hence, there is need to
ensure the integration of better climate change design for drainage,
sewerage and solid waste management systems. This project is a key
priority for the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which may lead to
considerable climate change resilience for the long-term sustainable
development of Mysuru.
Description of
project
The overall objective of the assignment is to support the MCC and
CDIA-ADB identify an investment project, at the pre-feasibility level,
that will address high priority and affordable infrastructure and
improved urban service delivery.
Mott MacDonald LTD.
Supporting cities development Mysuru climate change,
India
In delivering this project, there are three main deliverables:
(i) Review and assess: the approach adopted by the city to address
storm water drainage management, sewage disposal, and solid waste
management. This includes assessment of the current practices for
planning, design, implementation, and maintenance related to these
services and identifying gaps and weaknesses and developing
recommendations on how to overcome this.
(ii) Preliminary project design: Review the Mysuru Drainage and
Sewerage Master Plan taking into account the land use element of
the current Town Development Plan as well as the existing and
proposed zoning in developing the storm water runoff calculations;
recommend improvements to SWD infrastructure; review institutional
landscape for key infrastructure provision and service delivery;
highlight economic, financial, environmental and social/poverty issues
related to this service provision.
(iii) Pre-feasibility study (PFS) of investment project: An integrated
urban drainage and climate change adaptation project will be
prepared to PFS level. This will involve preparing technical
assessments of the priority areas within the SWD strategy;
Incorporating climate change adaptation approach in the designs of
the integrated drainage scheme; identify financing options;
incorporate pollution reduction measures in the project design.
Services provided
The assignment will be undertaken in two continuous phases
comprising: (i) Phase I Review and Preliminary Project Design; and
(ii) Phase II Pre-feasibility Study (PFS) for the Integrated Drainage
System and Climate Change Adaptation Project for (MCC).
Phase 1 – Review and Preliminary Project Design:
Phase I focuses on a preliminary review of Mysuru City Corporation’s
approach to storm water drainage, sewage disposal, and solid waste
management. Specific services include:
- Collaborate closely with MCC officials and relevant MCC
departmental
- Review the Mysuru Drainage Master Plan and Sewerage Plan
taking into account the land use element of the current Town
Development and conduct a post-project review of the 2 drainage
schemes nearing completion
- Evaluate deficiencies in the existing storm drainage maintenance
program including recommendations for improvement of existing
drainage infrastructure to meet future requirements; and review
current O&M practices.
- Identify the approximate time period and financing that would be
required for MCC to fully connect households to the existing STPs.
Identify the current connection fees, tariffs, STP
revenues/costs/financial viability and the tariff adjustments and other
measures needed for full cost recovery.
- Assess the upper watershed catchments and the plans for additional
investment and management service provision, conservation, etc., if
any.
Mott MacDonald LTD.
Supporting cities development Mysuru climate change,
India
- Undertake a stakeholder mapping analysis relevant to the MCC’s
priority areas.
- Provide an overview of the present institutional landscape for the
delivery of SWD, sewerage, and solid waste management and
identify gaps in service delivery and propose where and how
improvements need to be made in MCC’s SWD drainage and health
departments.
- Identify potential investments for MCC and prioritize the investments
in terms of urgency and impacts.
Phase 2 – Pre-feasibility Study of Investment Project for Integrated
Drainage System and Climate Change Adaptation
Phase II focuses on the development of the identified projects to PFS
level:
- Undertake extensive stakeholder consultations appropriate to the
development and assessment of PFS options in SWD investments.
- Provide technical assessments of the priority areas within the SWD
and clearly identify the main constraints, and investment and
infrastructure gaps necessary to achieve service level benchmarks.
- Incorporate a climate change adaptation approach in the designs of
the integrated drainage scheme, with return periods of at least 1 in 10
years.
- Incorporate pollution reduction measures in the project design such
as blocking sewage entry points into the drains and linking gap areas
to the sewerage scheme
- Build into the integrated drainage scheme design, upstream flood
“slowing” measures such as small catch basins, flood detention
ponds, permeable paving, rainwater harvesting8, groundwater
recharge, and other sustainable urban drainage measures
- Investigate the potential damage of important heritage sites and
buildings due to climate change and propose possible remedial
measures that could be included in the project design.
- Investigate the possibility of building part of the integrated bicycle
path system/and landscaped green areas along the storm water
drains, especially in the MUDA areas where adequate buffer zones
are required in the layout plans.
- Identify and define technical options for improving SWD, prioritise
these options and recommend those of highest priority for follow-on
feasibility study development.
- Prepare preliminary estimates of project costs broken down per
component and subcomponent.
- Assess potential social and environmental impacts of Project
- Support the preparation of a financing plan for the investments and
explore what potential exists to develop the investments through
PPPs and propose a downstream financing plan that can be
mobilized for the investment programme.
Results
Senior staff and
The identification of a climate change adaption investment
programme is the expected outcome of the project
Peter Wreford - Team leader; Sreekant Bathuku - Deputy Team
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Supporting cities development Mysuru climate change,
India
functions
leader; Nithya Yogaraj - Social/Gender Specialist; Sharad Mishra Resettlement Specialist; Boominathan - Municipal Finance Specialist;
Nabneetha Rudra - Institutional Specialist; SK Bhaksar - AutoCAD
Specialist
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