The storm water drain carrying the waste water and waste from the wholesale fish market into the river Sal.
MARGAO
Hopes have been raised that the commissioning of the North Main Trunk Sewage line passing through Fatorda will abate the sewage flow into the river Sal along it course.
What about the wholesale fish market? Has the South Goa Planning and Development Authority (SGPDA) drawn up any plans to treat the thousands of litres of waste water and leachate from the wholesale fish market before the same is released in the adjoining river Sal.
It is a sheer irony that while the wholesale fish market has been redeveloped and renovated with central funds through the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation, a full-fledged Effluent Treatment plant (ETP) is not put in place to treat the waste water and leachate generated in the market.
In fact, the proponents of the ambitious project pin hopes on the SGPDA to revive the effluent treatment mechanism set up by BITS Pilani at the wholesale fish market to handle the thousands of litres of water generated in the wholesale fish market, which presently is discharged untreated in the river Sal for want of any treatment. “The SGPDA, which is owning and running the wholesale fish market, should get the BITS Pilani water treatment revived to treat the water generated in the market”, remarked a GSIDC official.
