NMMC’s Morbe Dam water stock to last till Sept ‘22

The Morbe Dam that supplies water to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) area has sufficient water levels to meet the demand till the first week of September. However, the current water level at the dam is a little lower than recorded last year.

While many parts of Navi Mumbai are facing water short- ages for the past two months, NMMC’s Morbe Dam has suffi- cient water to meet the demand till September 2, 2022. The total storage capacity of the dam is 190.890 million cubic meters (MCM). As of April 22, the storage was 90.620 MCM – 48 per cent of its total capacity. “The maximum water level of the dam is 88 meters. Currently, the level is at 76 meters,” said an official from Morbe Dam. The dam had overflowed on September 28 last year as the catchment area had received over 3700 mm of rainfall.

According to officials from NMMC's engineering department, as per the agreement, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has to supply 10 MLD (million litres per day) of water to the NMMC.

However, the supply is not constant and this has impacted water planning by the civic body. In addition, NMMC is also supplying 10 MLD water to a few areas under the jurisdiction of CIDCO. This has resulted in daily additional consumption of 20 MLD of water. “Even in this scenario, the civic administration is using water in a planned way and it will continue to supply during the summer without any pause,” said a senior civic official.

The monsoon is expected to arrive in the city by the first or second week of June. The requirement to overflow the dam is 3250 mm of rainfall in the catchment area. For the past two years, the Raigad district receives 3300 mm of rainfall on average. The Morbe Dam is located at Khalapur in Raigad district.