Mumbai: The BMC has floated a tender for constructing a dam on the Gargai river in Palghar district, a project under discussion for nearly a decade. Planned as Mumbai’s eighth water source, the dam is expected to add 450 Million Litres per day (MLD) to the city’s supply at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,040 crore. The initiative follows the Middle Vaitarna Dam project completed in 2014.

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A senior official stated that the project entails constructing a 69-metre-tall dam and a 1.6-km water supply tunnel with a 2.2-metre diameter. Water from the Gargai reservoir will be channelled through this tunnel—cut across the hillock separating the two basins—to the Modak Sagar reservoir, from where it will be supplied to Mumbai. The BMC also plans to develop a permanent guest house, an auditorium

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