Sewage Treatment Plants in Owe, Kharghar.

New towers near Owe are built on the edge of the network, and some run their own STPs from the start. The hill setting brings its own problem: in the monsoon, water from the slopes can enter sewers through manholes and poor joints and flood the plant. We check that storm and sewage lines are kept separate, raise manhole covers where needed, size capacity to the homes that are occupied, and plan where treated water goes when gardens need none in the rains.

Owe is an older village at Kharghar's outer edge, where the node's sectors meet the hills. Its houses and lanes remain, but the fields and open land around it are being taken up by new sectors and residential towers. Above the village, a small dam holds a lake in a fold between the hills, and in the monsoon streams run down past the settlement towards the node. The ground here is steeper and more broken than in central Kharghar. It is still one of the node's quieter corners, but building has been moving steadily towards it.