SURAT: A day after Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) sleuths unearthed three drums filled with hazardous chemical waste that a chemical manufacturing firm had clandestinely buried in its factory premises, officials are now planning to use ground scanning technology to detect more such cases in Sarigam GIDC.
“The area is huge and we suspect more chemicals to have been buried into the land. This technology will help in scanning the ground easily rather than digging the entire area,” said a GPCB official.
Earlier on Saturday, GPCB officials raided Survival Technologies Pvt Ltd in Sarigam GIDC in Valsad district and found the three drums in the ground. “We will expose this hazardous modus operandi of dumping chemical waste in the ground and polluting ground water as well as the environment. Action will be taken against the company as per the prescribed law, said an official.
Smoke coming out of the area where the chemical was buried
SURAT: The Gujarat Pollution Control Board’s (GPCB) sleuths raided a chemical manufacturing company in Sarigam GIDC and found three drums filled with hazardous chemical waste buried in open ground in the factory premises on Saturday.
Official sources said that acting on the information received, a team of GPCB officials raided Survival Technologies Pvt Ltd in Sarigam GIDC. The officials found three drums containing toxic chemical buried in the ground.
GPCB officials said that they were going to digging the entire compound of the factory and their entire team of the Sarigam GPCB was on the spot.
Officials to assess impact on animals and their habitat
Vadodara: The forest department on Saturday begun probe into the racket of disposing highly toxic industrial waste in Vishwamitri river which is known for its healthy population of crocodiles.
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Thursday had busted the racket near Vadsar and lodged an FIR against five persons at Manjalpur police station. The accused were disposing the acidic waste into the river using a flexible hose pipeline.
“Our survey began on Saturday morning. The first thing we are ascertaining is whether any animal has got injured, sick or died due to the highly acidic effluent that was dumped in the river,” said deputy conservator Kartik Maharaja.
Highly toxic industrial waste was being disposed off clandestinely in Vishwamitri
VADODARA: Highly toxic industrial waste was being disposed off clandestinely in Vishwamitri, the river that passes from the heart of the city and known for its healthy population of crocodiles.
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Thursday busted the racket near Vadsar and lodged an FIR against five persons at Manjalpur police station. The accused were caught disposing the acidic waste into the river using a flexible hose pipeline.
GPCB acted on complaints that sarpanches of three gram panchayats – Karali, Khalipur and Maretha – had made to the district collector and the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) in October this year. A stretch of nearly eight km from Vadsar to Maretha has been badly affected.
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