Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai international airport (NMIA) will present an environment-friendly aerial view with two rivers on the north side flanking the two east-west parallel runways. A mangrove park on the north side and plantation of non-fruit bearing trees along the rivers to divert the birds will cheer up the passengers.
Expanding city's second airport with domestic and international flights will be different from the Mumbai airport with vast acres of greenery and nature view unlike the concrete swell and slums in Santa Cruz.
Both the rivers are seasonal. Ghadi river on the north is a spill from Dehrang dam from the rain water from Matheran hills that flows into the Panvel creek and Ulwe river is on the south, which originates from another hill further south of the airport. It currently flows across the core area of the airport into the Panvel creek, but as part of the pre-development works, it will be diverted through a recourse channel parallel to the runway on the south side and flow into the Moha creek.
IIT Bombay has designed the recourse channel and Pune-based central water and power research station (CWPRS)-- a central government body has given the guidelines for the Ulwe river diversion. The last parcel of the pre-development tender works worth around Rs 545 crore involving a portion of Ulwe hill cutting and the eponymous river diversion is in the last leg of finalisation.
17/02/17 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
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Expanding city's second airport with domestic and international flights will be different from the Mumbai airport with vast acres of greenery and nature view unlike the concrete swell and slums in Santa Cruz.
Both the rivers are seasonal. Ghadi river on the north is a spill from Dehrang dam from the rain water from Matheran hills that flows into the Panvel creek and Ulwe river is on the south, which originates from another hill further south of the airport. It currently flows across the core area of the airport into the Panvel creek, but as part of the pre-development works, it will be diverted through a recourse channel parallel to the runway on the south side and flow into the Moha creek.
IIT Bombay has designed the recourse channel and Pune-based central water and power research station (CWPRS)-- a central government body has given the guidelines for the Ulwe river diversion. The last parcel of the pre-development tender works worth around Rs 545 crore involving a portion of Ulwe hill cutting and the eponymous river diversion is in the last leg of finalisation.
17/02/17 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
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