Case Study of Grey Water Management at Ariyanendhal Village in Ramanathapuram District

 BEST PRACTICES OF GREY WATER MANAGEMENT

AT

ARIYANENDHAL VILLAGE PANCHAYAT 

RAMANATHAPURAM DISTRICT

Introduction:

Ariyanedal Village Panchayat is one of the 39 Village Panchayats in Paramakudi Block, Ramanathapuram District on the Madurai - Rameswaram National Highway.  The village panchayat has 761 families with total population of 2560 spread over two hamlets namely Ariyanendal and vagaikulam. 

First Success of Ariyanendal Village Panchayat:

        Prior to the Year 2012 village panchayat had only 10% toilet coverage and was surrounded by prosopis julifiora, an invasive species which is predominately used for Charcoal making by the villagers.  People of the village used to openly defecate in nearby prosopis jungles and wild scrub trees. As a consequence, village was seeing a greater number of water borne diseases and poor behavior and compliances to personal Hygiene among villagers. Hence village was looking shabby and unpleasantful.

Hence as a first step, action was taken to remove all the jungles around the village as a result DRDA removed 23 acres of jungle land and converted it into cultivable land.

After recovery of 23 acres of land 13000 saplings in massive tree plantation activities were carried out and converted the barren land to beautiful forest. This initiative took away the nearby open defecation area traditionally used by villagers in their vicinity.

A Grey Water Management initiative: Problem

 There was no proper disposal of wastewater in the village panchayat. This caused major inconvenience for motorists and also stagnant water in long streets. The panchayat representatives and public were constantly complaining to district administration about the poor wastewater management in the village. The 8 streets were narrow, disorganized. Hence, providing individual soak pit was a bigger concern due to unavailability of land.

Grey Water Management: Action

1. Transect walk was done by village level motivators along with enthusiastic villagers. Special Grama Sabha was convened by village panchayat president and all ward members. People were motivated to participate in the special sanitation Gram Sabha. A village wastewater map was drawn, and all households were plotted on the map with active inputs from villagers. A total number of 410 houses were identified on the south side of the National Highway and 273 houses on north side.
2. Mapping of Sewages source and destination points were done
3. Drawing a village level grey water management plan was carried out
4. Need assessment was carried out and number individual soak pits, Community soak pits, Vertical and Horizontal soak pits, drainage work were identified.
5. DRDA took a special initiative to saturate the grey water demand works for gap closure from executives schemes 

    DRDA was able to lay 1100 m of sewage pipeline and vertical public suction pit were erected at 5 places at the end point of pipeline to carry the grey water to the community soak pit.  This resulted in narrow street becoming cleaner streets. All these narrow streets were laid with paver block under MGNREGS, 15^th Finance Commission and Other Schemes. A complete makeover and new look were given to all streets of Ariyanendal panchayat. In addition, 273 households having sufficient land availability and a total number of 45 community soak pits were setup under MGNREGS Scheme.

Grey Water Management Coverage:

S. No	Total No. of Households	No. of Households covered under Individual Soak pit	No. of Households covered under Kitchen Garden	No. of Households covered under Community Soak pit	No. of Households covered under Drainage
1	761	285	83	268	124

Construction of Individual HH Soak Pit:

S. No	Total No of HH	Construction of Individual Soak pit	Year	Scheme	Estimate Cost	No of HH Used
1	761	10	2019-2020	MGNREGS	8500/-	285
2		275	2020-2021	MGNREGS	9300/-
	Total	285

Construction of Community Soak Pit:

S. No	Total No. of HH	Construction of Community Soak pit	Year	Scheme	Estimate Cost	No of HH Used
1	761	15	2019-2020	MGNREGS	10300/-	-
2		30	2020-2021	MGNREGS	12500/-
	Total	45				-

Construction of Community Soak Pit (Vertical):

S.No	Total No. of HH	Construction of Vertical Soak pit	Year	Scheme	Estimate Cost in Rs.	No of HH Used
1	761	1	2019-2020	MGNREGS	127000/-	220
2		8	2020-2021	MGNREGS	127000/
3		3	2021-2022	MGNREGS	130000/-
	Total	12			384000/-	220

Construction of Horizontal Soak Pit:

S. No	Total No. of HH	Construction of Horizontal Soak pit	Year	Scheme	Estimate Cost	No of HH Used
1	761	1	2021-2022	MGNREGS	135000/-	48

Construction of Drainage:

S. No	Total No. of HH	Construction of Drainage	Year	Scheme	Estimate Cost (Rs.)	No. of HH Usage
1	761	1 (800) Meter	2021-22	MGNREGS	3728000	124
		1 (450) Meter	2021-22	MGNREGS	2097000
	Total	2 (1250) Meter			5825000	124

Conclusion:

By all these proactive initiatives taken by Ariyanendal village panchayat. Today Ariyanendal has become a model village Panchayat with 100% end to end management of grey water. With ongoing Jal Jeevan mission project in their village, now Ariyanendal village, have got 100% access to safe drinking water and 100% clean and safe environment. An unpleasant Ariyanenthal village on National Highway has been transformed into a green, neat and beautiful village.