‘Closed tanneries operating clandestinely’

  • | Friday | 29th March, 2019

After one hour, the effluent flow touched 10 MLD mark. The board would finally pass the report to National Green Tribunal, Dwivedi added. Meanwhile, some tannery operators assembled at the treatment plant and started protesting against collection of sample of the discharge.Dwivedi claimed that around half-an-hour later, flow of discharge was reduced to 4 MLD due to closure of tanneries. It would send different teams for sampling which would file report to the board. The CPCB team, which had left the plant due to protest of tannery owners returned at around 4pm and collected the samples thereafter.The project manager said that generally samples were collected from the inlet and outlet of the CETP.

KANPUR: River pollution control unit of Jal Nigam on Thursday alleged that the tanneries in Kanpur are closed on paper but are in reality being operated covertly.Project general manager of river pollution control unit, Ghanshyam Dwivedi said that the fact was corroborated when a three-member team of central pollution control board (CPCB) visited the city on Wednesday and witnessed the common chrome effluent treatment plant (CETP) working at Jajmau.The three-member team led by senior scientist R Patil observed that the plant was receiving 20 MLD discharge and the CETP chemist Ajay Kannaujia apprised the team that the effluent was of tanneries.The team asked the chemist to collect samples hourly, Dwivedi said. Meanwhile, some tannery operators assembled at the treatment plant and started protesting against collection of sample of the discharge.Dwivedi claimed that around half-an-hour later, flow of discharge was reduced to 4 MLD due to closure of tanneries. After one hour, the effluent flow touched 10 MLD mark. The CPCB team, which had left the plant due to protest of tannery owners returned at around 4pm and collected the samples thereafter.The project manager said that generally samples were collected from the inlet and outlet of the CETP. The chemist checks the chemical Oxygen demand (COD) biological Oxygen demand (BOD) TSS, TDS and heavy metal ( chromium ) in the inlet and outlet samples, and compares the pollution and difference in polluting contents of the effluent after treatment.Representatives of tannery owners’ association had accused the river pollution control unit of flowing sewer discharge in tannery channels and displaying it as tannery effluent.Dwivedi said that CPCB would collect sample of Jajmau plant every week on Tuesday or Wednesday. It would send different teams for sampling which would file report to the board. The board would finally pass the report to National Green Tribunal, Dwivedi added.

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