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A gathering attended by representatives of the Kochi Corporation, Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB), and the Apartment Owners Apex Association present connected Tuesday saw stakeholders sticking to their presumption connected the contented of addressing sewage contamination on Thevara-Perandoor and Edappally canals.
The gathering was convened arsenic portion of efforts to resoluteness the deadlock implicit the contentious issue. The PCB urged flat owners, who are yet to taxable an affidavit seeking much clip to acceptable up sewage attraction plants (STPs), to guarantee compliance. Officials of the bureau said that they were acting connected the directive of the Kerala High Court to place contamination sources and initiate remedial action.
The committee said that a sheet acceptable up by the tribunal arsenic per an bid dated October 27, 2025 to travel up with a semipermanent solution to the vexed contented was expected to taxable its preliminary study wrong 4 weeks. The committee included Local Self-Government section Principal Secretary, PCB Chairperson, Kerala Water Authority Managing Director, and the Kochi Corporation secretary.
The counsel for the Apartment Owners Apex Association reiterated the earlier presumption that the improvement of abstracted STP for each flat analyzable would beryllium a sheer discarded of wealth amid the scarcity of onshore required to acceptable up the facilities.
The representatives of the relation recalled the orders issued by the Central Pollution Control Board directing the State boards to marque it mandatory for the local/urban bodies to acceptable up STPs of capable capableness and supply underground sewerage system. They besides said that the sewer networking projected by the Kochi Corporation/Kerala Water Authority would beryllium completed by the clip each of the aged flat complexes completed the formalities and obtained consent to run the STPs.
