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| HC seeks report on Achan dumping site from Registrar Judicial | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 28: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed Registrar Judicial (Srinagar wing) to visit garbage dumping site for Srinagar at Achan and submit report indicating among other things whether or not any leachate remains untreated at the spot.
"It needs to be examined whether all leachate generated passes through three Leachate Treatment Plants or some of it still finds its way to underground water," a division bench of the court comprising Justice Hasnain Massodi and Justice DS Thakur said while hearing a Public Interest Litigation.
"It would be just and proper to direct Registrar Judicial High Court wing Srinagar to make a spot inspection and submit his report inter alia indicating whether any leachate continues to remain untreated and does not pass through LTPs installed at the landfill site," the Division bench said.
However, the court has not set any time frame for filing the report even as PIL has been posted for further consideration on April 22, 2014.
Meanwhile, in its report based on analysis of leachate, the Pollution Control Board said that the three LTPs are working at optimum level and the discharge does not contaminate the underground water. On previous date of hearing, the Division Bench had asked the PCB to take samples of the discharge, observing that one of the reasons for contamination of underground water at Achan might be the poor performance of the LTPs. On last date of heading the court had directed PCB to take samples of discharge from three LTPs at least once in a week and get them analysed so as to indicate whether they are functioning at the optimum level and the discharge is free from turbidity and other elements over and above the permissible level.
Counsel for PCB informed the court that unscientific treatment of municipal solid waste during last 30 years at the landfill site by Srinagar Municipal Corporation might have degraded the underground water quality.
Meanwhile, the court asked advocate Faisal Qadri, representing the petitioner to file a proper application in favour of his demand of shifting the dumping site to some other place.
He said that the site being used for the last 30 years has outlived its life and is required to be shifted to any other place.
"Mr Qadri would be free to lay a motion in this regard and append material, if any, in support of his stand with an application so that respondents are asked to file their response," the division bench said.
Meanwhile, Chief Engineer Public Health Engineering filed compliance report, stating that public at large, and in particular people residing around the dumping site have been informed through public notice in newspapers regarding turbidity and presence of other elements above the permissible and tolerance limits in the underground water. |
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