It is learnt that the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued notices to around 43 commercial units in Colva including hotels and restaurants to take connections to the Colva Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The owners of the establishments have also been asked to submit compliance reports within seven days. Incidentally there has been a continuous discharge of sewage into the Colva creek allegedly from commercial establishments near the beach. It would have been in the fitness of things for these commercial units to apply for connection to the treatment plant when the Colva STP was ready for commissioning in all respects. It must be said that letting out sewage into the water bodies can lead to a health hazard among the locals and such illegal activity is carried out at several places across the state. There should be zero tolerance towards discharging sewage into the water bodies. Those commercial establishments doing so, even when there is provision for connecting to the STP, should be dealt with seriously by the local governing body, even to the extent of cancelling their commercial license.
