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The North Chennai Federation of Residents’ Welfare Association has opposed the projected Waste-to-Energy (WTE) works successful Kodungaiyur, citing a caller Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) study that showed alert ash from WTE plants successful Hyderabad’s Jawaharnagar and Dundigal contained dense metals acold exceeding limits permissible by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Federation said the CPCB, successful its submission to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), recorded cadmium levels of 858.65 mg/kg successful alert ash from the Jawaharnagar works and 956.69 mg/kg from the Dundigal facility. The permissible bounds nether WHO standards is 0.8 mg/kg. It said the levels were 1,073 times and 1,195 times higher, respectively.
T.K. Shanmugam, president of the federation, said a delegation from the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC), including Mayor R. Priya, Commissioner J. Kumaragurubaran, councillors, and officials, had visited the Jawaharnagar installation successful April erstwhile institution representatives told the delegation that determination was “zero percentage” toxic discharge and that each ash was reused. Despite aggregate requests, nary supporting study was shared with the Corporation, helium added.
He said civilian nine groups successful Telangana, connected September 19, made the CPCB findings nationalist and noted that the aforesaid institution operating determination has been awarded the Kodungaiyur WTE tender.
The federation recalled that it met the Mayor again connected August 28, on with biology experts, and submitted the CPCB report. It urged that the Kodungaiyur task beryllium abandoned and that the reclaimed tract alternatively beryllium developed into an biology parkland and a nationalist room with grooming facilities.
