MUMBAI: The BMC has put its Rs 10,000 crore sewage treatment plant tendering procedure on dangle following a recent National Green Tribunal (NGT) order that has stayed the 2017 ministry of atmosphere and forests notification stress-free sewage discharge laws.
NGT has asked a professional committee to inspect the effects of the comfortable stipulations on biochemical oxygen call for (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS) in water our bodies. Both BOD and TSS ranges should be maintained in water our bodies to ensure safety of marine life. (See field).
The committee has been asked to put up its record prior to March 31.
The NGT order was issued on a petition filed by means of an activist who alleged that rest in sewage discharge norms will result in popular degradation of water quality (in Mumbai, the ocean) and disturb the marine ecosystem.
The BMC and the state executive had written to the environment minister, asking for his intervention to ensure the venture, “which has been moving at a snail’s tempo since 2007”, does now not get additional behind schedule.
The BMC had invited the tenders to set up six sewage treatment plants at different places in the town with the capacity to regard 1,842 million litre according to day (MLD) of sewage. The tendering procedure was in its ultimate stages when the NGT issued its order.
The BMC discharges the sewage into the ocean after initial treatment.
The present sewage infrastructure was advanced by means of 2003 and, in 2007, the BMC conceptualized that the power might be upgraded with the help of complex sewage treatment plants.
The purpose was to prevent degradation of coastal atmosphere, which would also help enhance the water quality on the beaches.
Till last year, although, the plan made no growth because of more than a few components, mainly protection of mangroves where sewage plants have been proposed, forest, atmosphere and costal clearances, and standards for discharging treated effluents into the ocean.
In 2015, the environment ministry issued strict draft guidelines for discharge of effluents by means of together with a situation that the TSS level will have to be 20mg according to litre and BOD 10mg. The BMC discovered roping in a contractor for the process an uphill task. It then approached the Union executive to get the effluents norms comfortable. In 2017, the environment ministry issued a last notifiction where it comfortable the norms by means of increasing the TSS level to 50 and BOD to level 20 for metro towns.
The BMC invited fresh tenders on the comfortable stipulations in 2017 and finished the process of scrutinizing the technical main points of the submitted bids.
BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta advised TOI: “We have determined against continuing additional until additional readability on the issue and feature requested the Union ministry’s intervention.”
A senior civic reliable said the 2015 ministry standards was “very strict”, which would have larger the overall venture cost by means of around 30%.
He said, “Such stipulations are intended for a town that discharges its sewage into rivers or lakes. It will have to now not be made obligatory for a town like Mumbai that discharges sewage into the ocean.”
NGT has asked a professional committee to inspect the effects of the comfortable stipulations on biochemical oxygen call for (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS) in water our bodies. Both BOD and TSS ranges should be maintained in water our bodies to ensure safety of marine life. (See field).
The committee has been asked to put up its record prior to March 31.
The NGT order was issued on a petition filed by means of an activist who alleged that rest in sewage discharge norms will result in popular degradation of water quality (in Mumbai, the ocean) and disturb the marine ecosystem.
The BMC and the state executive had written to the environment minister, asking for his intervention to ensure the venture, “which has been moving at a snail’s tempo since 2007”, does now not get additional behind schedule.
The BMC had invited the tenders to set up six sewage treatment plants at different places in the town with the capacity to regard 1,842 million litre according to day (MLD) of sewage. The tendering procedure was in its ultimate stages when the NGT issued its order.
The BMC discharges the sewage into the ocean after initial treatment.
The present sewage infrastructure was advanced by means of 2003 and, in 2007, the BMC conceptualized that the power might be upgraded with the help of complex sewage treatment plants.
The purpose was to prevent degradation of coastal atmosphere, which would also help enhance the water quality on the beaches.
Till last year, although, the plan made no growth because of more than a few components, mainly protection of mangroves where sewage plants have been proposed, forest, atmosphere and costal clearances, and standards for discharging treated effluents into the ocean.
In 2015, the environment ministry issued strict draft guidelines for discharge of effluents by means of together with a situation that the TSS level will have to be 20mg according to litre and BOD 10mg. The BMC discovered roping in a contractor for the process an uphill task. It then approached the Union executive to get the effluents norms comfortable. In 2017, the environment ministry issued a last notifiction where it comfortable the norms by means of increasing the TSS level to 50 and BOD to level 20 for metro towns.
The BMC invited fresh tenders on the comfortable stipulations in 2017 and finished the process of scrutinizing the technical main points of the submitted bids.
BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta advised TOI: “We have determined against continuing additional until additional readability on the issue and feature requested the Union ministry’s intervention.”
A senior civic reliable said the 2015 ministry standards was “very strict”, which would have larger the overall venture cost by means of around 30%.
He said, “Such stipulations are intended for a town that discharges its sewage into rivers or lakes. It will have to now not be made obligatory for a town like Mumbai that discharges sewage into the ocean.”
BMC stays Rs 10,000cr sewage plant tenders
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