Sewage Treatment Plants in Kalyan West, Kalyan-Dombivli.

Towers replacing old Kalyan West buildings usually carry their own sewage plants, squeezed under a podium or into a low basement. Plants in such spaces fail through poor access and ventilation more than through poor design. We plan the plant with the building (a hatch large enough to lift out a blower, ducting for air and odour, space to remove sludge) and rate its capacity for the flats as they will be lived in, not only for the brochure figure.

Kalyan West is the old town, the side of the railway junction where Kalyan grew as a port and market long before the suburbs arrived. The Durgadi fort stands above the creek, the Kala Talao lake sits near the old centre, and the APMC market and busy station roads carry traffic from the whole district. Beyond the core, towers are rising where older buildings stood, and new layouts have spread towards Gandhare and the Kalyan-Bhiwandi road. The Ulhas creek, tidal and lined with mangroves, forms the western edge. The Adharwadi dumping ground, long a local grievance, lies within it.