STP issue: apartment complex tells PCB it does not come under board’s purview

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The flat analyzable located astatine Gandhinagar Housing Colony, Kadavanthra, that received powerfulness disconnection announcement from the Kerala State Electricity Board for not having sewage attraction works (STP) has stated that it does not travel nether the consent purview of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board.

The flat analyzable had figured among the 71 complexes that had travel nether the scanner of the committee for not having STP arsenic per the norms.

In their reply dated October 11, 2025, representatives of Mayura Apartments astatine 3rd Cross Road, Gandhi Nagar Housing Colony, Kadavanthra, pointed retired that lone high-rise buildings and residential apartments having a built-up country of 2000 sq m oregon much were required to get consent arsenic per a circular issued by the committee connected April 22, 2010. The apartment, arsenic per the gathering program approved by the Kochi Corporation, had a built-up country of lone 1335.10 sq m, it said.

The apartment, with 12 units, was constructed 27 years agone connected a crippled of 27 cents. The analyzable has maintained capable facilities for liquid discarded treatment, with wastewater being channelled done an interior drainage strategy to an underground soak pit and thereafter to the municipal drainage of the Kochi Corporation, the reply stated. The relation said that it was not feasible to instal a modern sewage attraction works successful presumption of the deficiency of abstraction and the constricted fig of occupants.

Published - October 15, 2025 09:48 p.m. IST

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