MRIIRS with the funding of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has created rainwater recharge structure at officer’s colony, sector 15A Faridabad, Haryana, India for water co-solving logging and groundwater depletion as a pilot project and with the hope to replicate it in entire city area. A pilot project is executed in Faridabad Smart City of National Capital Region India, to combat water logging and to rejuvenate groundwater resource.In the study all steps were undertaken meticulously, beginning from hydrogeological study, site selection, rainfall analysis, calculations of runoff generation, framing well design after identification of suitable recharge zones within depleted aquifer and determination of its intake capacity. It further elucidates estimation of suitable
dimension of desilting chamber, fixing suitable dose of ferric chloride for coagulation and assessment of recharge volume. The constructed recharge system is tested whether it is working effectively as per the feedback obtained from independent sources. It has high scalability in similar hydrogeological situation in other parts of India.

• The project of 36 months duration with 0.7012 crore budget, submitted with the title “Co-solving water logging and groundwater depletion issues in parts of Faridabad Smart City using Underground Taming of Flood Water for Aquifer Storage and Recovery” to the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, got sanctioned to Manav Rachna CAWTM in May 2021. 

• Under this investigation it was proposed to divert the urban flash flood creating water logging condition and is hampering day-to-day life during monsoon period to improve the groundwater condition within the depleted aquifer. This aquifer storage and recovery project of taming urban flood water is addressing two critical issues of urban hydrology to improve the sustainability.
• Developing solutions to the street water logging and groundwater depletion through Underground Taming of Flood water (UTF) for Aquifer Storage Recovery (ASR) in Faridabad Smart City.
• Identification of suitable aquifer zones for recharge in the Faridabad Smart City

• Impact Assessment: Under this sponsored project, MRIIRS with the funding of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has created rainwater recharge structure at officer’s colony, sector 15A Faridabad, Haryana, India for water co-solving logging and groundwater depletion as a pilot project and with the hope to replicate it in entire city area.
• Real time monitoring of groundwater level, temperature, and electrical conductivity for impact assessment on the ground water system.
• Periodic monitoring of groundwater quality to assess the impact of Aquifer Storage and Recovery through comparison of the source water and product water.
• To study the reduction in energy consumption for groundwater pumping due to UTF & ASR

• Project Investigators: Dr. Arunangshu Mukherjee (Principal Investigator- PI)

                               Dr. Nidhi Didwania (Co- PI)

                               Ms. Alifia Ibkar, Research Assistant

• Capacity Building for Replication: Capacity building of Urban Local Body (ULB) officials such as Municipal Corporation Faridabad (MCF), Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HUDA) & Faridabad Smart City Limited (FSCL) etc related to Underground Taming of Flood water (UTF) for Aquifer Storage Recovery (ASR).