Ahmedabad/ Vadodara: In a damning report, the central pollution control board (CPCB) proved that industries in and around Vadodara are dumping toxic chemicals into Mahi river and the Gulf of Cambay. The effluent being dumped are 15 times more polluted than the accepted norms.
A Bangladeshi barge carrying around 60 tonnes of fly ash sank in the Hooghly, near Budge Budge, on Thursday apparently after the engine developed a snag during high tide.
The Anmona-2, which was returning to Bangladesh with fly ash from the CESC plant in Budge Budge, has been tied away from the navigational channel, about 60 feet from the bank.
April 28: Industrial effluents are heavily polluting the Penna river near Tadipatri in Anantpaur. The river is the only water body with water throughout the year in the district.
Indiscriminate discharge of hazardous pollutants into the river is posing a threat to aquatic life and people. There are about 300 granite and slab industries around Tadipatri.
Coimbatore: Farmers in Kurumbapalayam, Kullakkapalayam and Podanur in Achipatti area of Pollachi have urged the administration to take steps to control the pollution caused by two companies.
Villagers in a signed memorandum to the Collector pointed out that the pollution emitted by these two companies was effecting the ground water and agricultural lands.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the Punjab Pollution Control Board to file an affidavit on time-bound programme for the installation of the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in the Budha Nullah pollution case. The information has to be furnished by August 9 - the next date of hearing, which has been fixed for August 9.
ERODE: The discharge of water into the Kalingarayan canal, a major irrigation channel in the district, has been stopped recently to give way for carrying out renovation and maintenance works. But the flow of effluents in the channel is yet to stop.
