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Hundreds of food were recovered floating successful a workplace good astatine Villarasampatti successful Erode district, aft the workplace proprietor alleged that the deaths were caused by the discharge of concern effluents into a adjacent stream.
On Tuesday (November 4, 2025), the owner, T. Senthilvel, noticed the dormant food successful the good and alerted officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). He claimed that a textile processing unit, located astir 800 metres away, had reportedly discharged effluents into the watercourse connected Sunday (November 2) night, starring to h2o contamination, which successful crook affected the well.
According to him, implicit 1,000 food of assorted sizes had died by Monday, though galore had already been carried distant by birds. Senthilvel said this was the 5th lawsuit of h2o contamination, the past 1 occurring successful 2024, erstwhile food had besides died owed to oxygen depletion and pollution.
The watercourse carrying the contaminated h2o yet flows into the Karuvilparai lake within the Corporation limits. The husbandman demanded stringent enactment against the textile portion for releasing effluents into the unfastened stream.
Officials took h2o samples for testing.
