Chemical discharge in nullah flowing into Irai river

Nagpur | Sunday | 2nd September, 2018

Summary:

Multi Organics has, however, maintained that the waste dump is quite old and affluent is now flowing into nullah along with rainwater. On examination, the waste dump was found to be a mix of blackish ash and large-scale industrial waste. Samples of dead fishes too have been collected for examination.Officials of Multi Organics have been told to immediately stop the flow of chemical discharge into the nullah and remove the waste dump. Spot inspection by MPCB team has revealed that the chemical effluents flushed into nullah have high PH of 9 and 10. MPCB sub-regional officer Pratap Jagtap took samples of reddish-black colour chemical discharge flowing into upper and lower side of the nullah.The report — a copy is in possession of TOI — states that chemical is seeping from a waste dump at the nullah bank..