The capital city's open 'sewage line'
PANAJI: In 2005, a new, 12.5-million-litres-per-day sewerage treatment plant (STP) at Tonca raised hopes for a dying St Inez creek. Almost a decade later, the creek continues to be stifled by sewage from households along its route and, as citizens allege, from the plant itself.
Till almost a decade ago, the old 4.5mld plant of the late 1960s had to cough out raw sewage into the 3.6km-water body, as the plant's capacity had proved inadequate to cope with the capital city's needs.
Today, a sizeable output from households unable to link to the central sewerage line and hutments without privy facilities are contributing significantly to the pollution of the creek. Citizens allege that the new plant itself is releasing massive quantities of sewage into the creek and this is done clandestinely at night.
"It is easy to blame slum-dwellers for releasing sewage into the creek or defecating in it, but it is the STP, which clandestinely releases sewage into it," alleges Savio Fonseca, a local resident.
Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/The-capital-citys-open-sewage-line/articleshow/39779042.cms
Till almost a decade ago, the old 4.5mld plant of the late 1960s had to cough out raw sewage into the 3.6km-water body, as the plant's capacity had proved inadequate to cope with the capital city's needs.
Today, a sizeable output from households unable to link to the central sewerage line and hutments without privy facilities are contributing significantly to the pollution of the creek. Citizens allege that the new plant itself is releasing massive quantities of sewage into the creek and this is done clandestinely at night.
"It is easy to blame slum-dwellers for releasing sewage into the creek or defecating in it, but it is the STP, which clandestinely releases sewage into it," alleges Savio Fonseca, a local resident.
Read more here - TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/The-capital-citys-open-sewage-line/articleshow/39779042.cms