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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has rejected the exertion by Coimbatore Corporation for operation of a sewerage attraction works (STP) adjacent the Chinnavedampatti vessel arsenic the norms person not been complied with, farmers who person been opposing the task person learnt.
During May, 2025, the Water Resources Department had issued an bid permitting the Corporation to conception a 9.95 MLD capableness STP taxable to conditions.
Factoring successful insufficient rainfall and deficiency of h2o travel into the tank, particularly during adust periods, successful caller years, the WRD, said successful its bid that the projected inaugural to recharge the vessel utilizing treated sewage h2o is simply a strategical and sustainable solution that tin code h2o scarcity portion elevating the tank’s ecological balance. According to the WRD, the water, station treatment, volition beryllium processed done a tertiary attraction works and yet the treated h2o volition beryllium released into the Chinnavedampatti vessel contributing to groundwater recharge.
The WRD’s assurance was that treated discarded h2o volition beryllium escaped from pollutants, pathogens and excess nutrients improving the wide prime of groundwater and cultivation onshore successful the surrounding areas.
The contention of the farmers opposing the task has been that the precise intent down the enactment of the 200-acre water by acquiring onshore from farmers nether the Land Acquisition Act during the 80s was to store freshwater accruing from rainfall from the occidental ghats done operation of a cheque dam astatine Kanuvai and enactment of a 60-feet wide proviso transmission to a magnitude of 8 km.
According to them, the tank, situated adjacent Saravanampatti was formed during the 80s covering astir 200 acres, to service arsenic a reservoir for Coimbatore North country and to mitigate flood into the Sanganoor canal during the monsoon season. The tank, located successful Ward 12, receives h2o done a feeder canal extending implicit 9.5 km, originating from Kanuvai and flowing done Thadagam, Mangarai, Pannimadai and Somayampalayam.
The farmers are wholly opposed to the project, apprehending contamination of groundwater. During the caller monthly gathering for redressal of farmers’ grievances, Vellakinar Kalisamy, president of Chinnavedampatti Eri Padukappu Vivasayigal Sangam, questioned the rationale down the Corporation pursuing the task without the authorisation of TNPCB.
The information acceptable distant by the WRD was that the task indispensable beryllium executed successful compliance with the provisions of TNPCB and the Manual connected Sewerage and Sewage Treatment Plant published successful 2013 by the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation.
“If determination is immoderate nationalist objection to the STP and storing of treated sewage h2o successful the tank, the support volition beryllium cancelled without immoderate anterior notice,” 1 of the pre-conditions states.
Mr. Kalisamy had availed the inferior of the IIPGCMS (Integrated and Inclusive Public Grievance CM Helpline Management System) for flagging the issue.
The TNPCB, it is learnt, has insisted connected compliance with its 2008 norms, according to which the STP should beryllium astatine slightest 250 metres distant from immoderate water oregon pond, preferably successful the downstream broadside of water oregon pond, truthful that the sewage shall not scope the h2o bodies. A preliminary appraisal of public/ adjacent residents sentiment neighbouring the determination of STP tract is essential, the TNPCB had emphasised.
