Officials find dyeing effluents dumped in canal
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Prompt action: Dyeing materials packed in clothes found in the canal at B.P. Agraharam in Erode on Friday.
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Following complaints that the colour of water in the sewage canal at Thanneer Pandal Palayam had turned red, officials from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Friday inspected the canal and found dyeing effluents dumped in the water body.
Many textile processing units involved in dyeing, bleaching and other processing are located in B.P. Agraharam, Periyasemoor and Soolai in the corporation limits that continue to discharge untreated effluents into the canal that finally enter River Cauvery. Residents and environmentalists were demanding a permanent solution to the issue.
Action sought against unit owners for polluting Kalingarayan Canal
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Members of Kalingarayan Pasana Sabai have urged the district police to initiate criminal action against textile processing unit owners who discharged effluents into Kalingarayan Canal.
In a petition submitted to Superintendent of Police P. Thangadurai, sabai president V.M. Velayudham said 35 units functioning in Vendipalayam areas were found discharging effluents into the canal during the inspection by Modakurichi MLA V.P. Subramani on February 7. The petition said the units had laid plastic pipes and were discharging the effluents into the canal, leading to its pollution.
Officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had disconnected power supply to the units and sealed them. Water from the canal was used for irrigating their land and also used as a drinking water source for farmers and cattle. Hence, sealing the unit was not enough and cases should be registered ag
Power supply to three textile processing units disconnected
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Farmers have complained about effluent release into canal
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Farmers have complained about effluent release into canal
Following complaints that effluents were let into Kalingarayan Canal, officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) disconnected power supply to three textile processing units functioning in the Corporation limits where effluent treatment plants were not operational.
On January 26, officials received a complaint over phone from farmers in Chavadipalayam that effluents continue to mix in Kalingarayan Canal and the colour of the water had changed.
The farmers said no textile processing units were functioning in their area and a flying squad inspected the canal at Chavadipalayam. Water sample was lifted and tested on the spot that revealed Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) at 300 mg per litre.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Vedanta seeking early hearing on its appeal filed against the Madras High Court order, which declined to allow the reopening of its Tuticorin plant.As the Tamil Nadu government had .
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CHENNAI: Biomedical waste and expired medicines dumped almost a week ago along the bunds of the Thiruneermalai Lake in a Chennai suburb have still not been removed by officials despite repeated complaints.
In recent times, disposing of biomedical waste in the open is being reported often in the suburbs of Chennai, posing much worry among residents as the medicines and syringes could be used by quacks or
cause health issues to animals nibbling at the garbage.
Activist Pughalvendhan V, who spotted the biomedical waste on Monday, raised a complaint to the Chief Minister s Cell and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the same day.