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The city’s archetypal decentralised onsite sewage attraction works (STP) adjacent Yatri Nivas successful Srirangam remains non-functional, resulting successful untreated wastewater being discharged straight into the Kollidam.
The Tiruchi Corporation commenced enactment connected the STP successful February 2023 astatine an estimated outgo of ₹1.33 crore. Designed with a attraction capableness of 2 cardinal litres of wastewater per day, the installation was intended to process sewage generated from households and commercialized establishments successful Srirangam and Thiruvanaikoil.
Though the task was scheduled for commissioning successful 2023, advancement was delayed owed to the dilatory installation of the postulation and flocculation tanks required for removing coagulated discarded from sewage. Officials said a proceedings tally of the works had been conducted, during which the treated h2o recorded a neutral pH level of astir 7.
The STP was planned to code the increasing measurement of wastewater expected implicit the adjacent 2 decades. Besides preventing groundwater contamination, the task was expected to support the livelihood of washermen who beryllium connected the stream for their occupation.
However, contempt the completion and archetypal commissioning of the facility, the works has remained defunct for astir 2 years. Consequently, untreated sewage from the locality flows into the Kollidam. This has affected washermen and farmers who trust connected the river. Residents and visitors, who bathe successful the river, are besides exposed to imaginable wellness risks owed to the pollution.
According to Suresh Venkatachalam, president of Srirangam Nagara Nala Sangam, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed that sewage should not beryllium discharged straight into rivers and indispensable beryllium treated earlier being released. The continued discharge of untreated wastewater into the Kollidam, helium said, was a wide usurpation of these directions.
“Despite aggregate representations, enactment has not been taken by the authorities. Immediate measures are required to forestall the discharge of sewage into the Kollidam,” helium said.
Corporation officials said support for the attraction of the works was inactive pending. An authoritative claimed that the installation functioned for a fewer months aft commissioning, but operations ceased aft the attraction declaration ended. The works is expected to resume operations erstwhile the indispensable approvals are obtained.
