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But it has left local lakes , ponds and Adi Ganga — which passes along the periphery of Behala — extremely polluted.A majority of Behala Puja organizers, who used to immerse idols at Bajekadamtala Ghat, chose to go to local lakes or the Adi Ganga to avoid a detour along Hyde Road. The structures could only be retrieved from Adi Ganga nearly 24 hours after their immersion, but the decorative material, paint and other debris were still floating in the ponds and Adi Ganga on Monday.The Behala waterbody pollution has a far-reaching health impact, said environmentalist Gautam Ghosh Dastidar. Apart from the detour, the show put up by organisers for the immersion procession would go unnoticed on Hyde Road, which passes through an industrial zone. KOLKATA: The collapse of the Majerhat bridge has spared the Hooghly of the pollution load caused by the immersion of a few hundred idols from Behala and further south. That slowed the entire immersion and cleanup process,” said a KMC official deployed at Jora Pukur..