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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has seemingly begun complying with the directive of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for ascertaining the grade of contamination astatine abandoned quarries successful Mudalipalayam and Nallur villages wherever the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation has been dumping wastes for respective years.
Against the backdrop of the CPCB categorising the abandoned quarries arsenic ‘suspected contamination site’ nether the Environment Protection (Management of Contaminated Sites) Rules, 2025, a squad of TNPCB collected h2o samples from 9 locations astir the abandoned quarries.
Though the TNPCB usually undertakes the sampling earlier and aft spells of rainfall, the enactment this clip is seen arsenic a facilitating measurement for declaration of the determination arsenic a contaminated site.
The ‘contaminated tract declaration process’ requires the TNPCB to undertake a preliminary tract appraisal for categorisation arsenic ‘potentially contaminated site’.
The process volition past determination connected to hold for 60 days for the Board to person nationalist opinion, earlier declaration of the determination arsenic ‘final contaminated site’.
TNPCB officials, however, maintained the sampling of h2o from astir the quarries arsenic a ‘routine process’.
Environmentalists who person been demanding effectual steps by the territory medication presumption the latest bid of Supreme Court delegating Statutory powers nether the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, for enforcing Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, arsenic a affirmative development.
