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Expressing interest astatine the continuing large-scale dumping of hazardous discarded into the Periyar and the evident slack practice betwixt the Centre and the State successful cleaning up the river, the Kerala High Court observed that the contamination level successful the stream posed an imminent information to people.
This is mostly owed to dumping of hazardous discarded into Kuzhikandam Creek, a tributary of the Periyar. Citing the deficiency of synergy, the tribunal said that the Centre and the State were citing excuses, alternatively of moving unneurotic to cleanable up the river.
A Division Bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran and Justice M.B. Snehalatha ordered the competent authorization astatine the Centre to commence discussions with the Secretary (Environment), Government of Kerala, to place a viable solution, including an alternate tract for effluent treatment. The tribunal further directed stakeholders to see the provisions of the Disaster Management Act to tackle pollution.
It besides took enactment of an alternate proposition by Adv. A.X. Varghese to rejuvenate Kuzhikandam Creek by utilizing the infrastructure of Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT). The tribunal said that it would tolerate nary further hold connected the contented of the contamination of the Periyar and the request to cleanable up the creek.
It had been reported that hazardous chemicals, including DDT, Benzene Hexachloride, and Endosulfan, had been detected astatine higher levels successful each sediment samples collected from Kuzhikandam Creek and its sub-drains, pursuing the wide food termination successful the Eloor-Edayar concern agelong of the Periyar connected May 20, 2024.
Sulphate attraction successful the samples was besides recovered to beryllium high. The highest attraction of DDT (210.4 mg/kg) had been detected adjacent the discharge constituent of Hindustan Insecticides Limited, adjacent the creek, based connected the investigation of sediment samples collected from the creek and its sub-drains joining the river.
The findings had subsequently been included successful the study of the adept committee constituted by the High Court to analyse the wide food termination on the concern agelong of the stream successful 2024.
