Clause No. 13 of Schedule B (Page no. 277) states that there is “A major transmission water pipeline runs parallel to the project road within ROW from Km Km. 5+150 to 9+150 (RHS). Development of road has been conceptualized without disturbing the stability / relocating the pipelines. Special safety measures as required to ensure continuous water supply may be taken during the construction stage. Provision of future maintenance of pipeline is also to be kept into consideration. Minor shifting of project road centreline, if indispensable may be made. “ Howdcasdever, to deal with the existing pipeline, which is in some place goes underground and in some places, it is exposed over ground need a detailed attention in terms of design and protection requirement criteria. First, due to the presence of the water pipe line (which is also coming in RE wall approach section), the alignment needs to shift towards left. In such places the alignment may go beyond ROW limit at the left side of the road section. Second, to take care the stability of the pipeline a casing structure in terms of covered box structure, which itself is going to affect hugely in Quantity. Third, in terms of future maintenance the casing of the pipe line while going underground need to be so spacious that one can easily access the pipe line for minor or major maintenance work. The size of the covered structure will affect in service road FRL. Which will increase due to the underground cased box structure, affecting also in quantity.
2. Raising of Profile at Pond Location:
In few cases where there is a presence of pond locations, the FRL of designed alignment has been raised to cater the HFL criteria for the safety of the pavement subgrade. A total of 2.5 m has been raised from the existing road level. By raising the profile at those selective locations and maintaining the minimum vertical slope criteria for drainage, profile has been modified. But due to the raising the earthwork quantity has been increased along with Retaining wall and Toe wall to restrict the slope of the earthwork within the ROW limit. Those raising can also be optimize by assessing actual HFL at the particular location and the raising the profile accordingly.
3. Providing Sand filling in Marshy area:
Locations along the project corridor where water logged area has been observed, a sand layer of 500 mm has been placed as a layer to densify the area. As those areas are prone to settlement, laying of sand layer has been indicated. However, the total length of such sections has been considered as 4.5 Km. in BOQ, which also includes areas near pond location. But that can be optimized by eliminating the pond locations and only retaining the waterlogged areas along the project stretch.