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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has asked the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to analyse the abandoned quarry successful Mudalipalayam-Nallur, successful effect to a nationalist petition complaining of dumping of coagulated wastes by Tiruppur Corporation and seeking declaration of the determination arsenic a polluted zone.
Referring to the petition submitted connected January 21, the CPCB missive sought the probe of the quarry successful accordance with the Environment Protection (Management of Contaminated Sites) Rules (EPMCS Rules, 2025), notified nether the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
The TNPCB is required to convey the existent presumption and Action Taken Report wrong a week.
The nationalist grievance petition seeking nonstop involution by CPCB was registered by P. Velusamy of Kenganaicken Palayam.
In an acknowledgement to a akin practice made earlier, the CPCB had, connected January 2, stated that the their grievance had been forwarded to TNPCB for enactment nether Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The latest missive by CPCB to TNPCB followed the contention expressed by Mr. Velusamy that determination was technological ground for dealing with the contented nether the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and the EPMCS Rules, 2025.
The petition presented evidences of dumping of unsegregated municipal waste, and manufacture wastes including dyeing effluents, chemic sludge and garment manufacture residues from Tiruppur textile clusters implicit the past decade.
The laboratory study stated that the TDS (Total Dissolved Solid) number was 1,20,050 mg per litre. Hexavalent chromium successful the illustration was determined astatine 9.51 mg per litre, which was 9,510 times higher. Likewise the levels of lead, nickel, boron, phenols, nitrates and nitrites were acold supra permissible levels. The groundwater and leachate contamination was good beyond effect levels nether Schedule - 1 of the Contaminated Sites Rules, 2025, the petition said.
The CPCB’s nonstop involution is indispensable since the TNPCB continues to categorise the contented nether Solid Waste Management, and the Tiruppur Corporation was proposing further discarded facilities wrong the aforesaid contaminated quarry, the petition said.
The Mudalipalayam-Nallur quarry country should beryllium declared arsenic ‘Contaminated Site’ nether Rule 4(9). Until remediation is complete, nary caller discarded facility, alteration successful onshore use, oregon immoderate onshore transaction oregon registration indispensable beryllium prohibited.
The Tiruppur Corporation indispensable beryllium held liable for the contamination nether Rule 5, and remediation and biology compensation proceedings indispensable beryllium initiated, Mr. Velusamy emphasised.
