Mayor Snehal Ambekar visited the Britannia pumping station on Saturday. So far, four pumping stations, Haji Ali, Irla, Love Grove and Cleveland, out of proposed eight have been commissioned by the BMC.Every year, Hindmata and its surrounding areas get flooded during the monsoon, especially during high tide, which brings life to a standstill. The pumping station will be commissioned before the monsoon. Work on the Britannia pumping station is in the final stages and it will be operational this monsoon.According to civic officials, the work of setting up pumps at Britannia is in the final stage and will be completed by the end of this month. File picture of flooding at Hindmata in Parel. The BMC has planned to construct eight pumping stations under the project.When operational, the Britannia pumping station will bring relief to 10 major chronic flooding spots like Hindmata, Parel, Lalbaug, Byculla, Kalachowki, Abhyuday Nagar etc. The Mumbai Port Trust has given a 2,200-sq-metre plot on rent basis to the BMC for this pumping station for a period of 30 years. But the pumping station at Mogra (Andheri) is still awaiting environmental clearances. The Gazdarband pumping station work at Santa Cruz has started, while the Maharashtra Costal Zone Management Authority has given its NOC to the Mahul pumping station. The Rs 115 crore pumping station will have six pumps with the total capacity of discharging water at 36 cubic metres per second.

 Hindmata area, which is notorious for water logging during the monsoon, is expected to be free of flooding problems this year.The Britannia pumping station has been constructed under the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System project, which is being implemented to prevent flooding and stagnation of water in low-lying areas of the city.

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