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Pattali Makkal Katchi territory caput Ashok Srinithi, on with enactment members, submitted a petition to the District Collector connected Friday, seeking steps to halt the discharge of untreated sewage into River Noyyal and different h2o bodies successful the city.
They said h2o samples collected from the Noyyal earlier this twelvemonth were sent for laboratory testing. Based connected the trial results, they alleged that the Coimbatore Corporation was releasing untreated sewage into the river. They besides alleged that wastewater from the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital was being straight discharged into Valankulam Lake.
“The laboratory tests showed precocious faecal coliform levels successful the water. Experts person said it could instrumentality much than 50 years for the h2o bodies to recover,” Mr. Srinithi said.
He alleged that contempt repeated complaints, nary factual measures had been taken to forestall sewage from mixing with the Noyyal and different h2o bodies. The petitioners demanded enactment wrong 45 days, failing which they said they would organise a protest.
