Several raids on illegal sand extraction have been conducted in Goa recently and vehicles and machinery have also been seized. Sand is collected mainly from rivers Mandovi, Zuari, Terekhol, Chapora and it’s tributaries.
Upstream the sand is collected manually, screened and supplied directly. Where the water column is more the sand extraction is done with the help of canoes and buckets attached to bamboos.
It is understood that the illegally extracted sand was dumped below the Amona Bridge on Sunday. It would be in the fitness of things to replenish the river bed from where the sand was extracted by dumping the confiscated sand at the spot from where it was extracted.
The exact place along the river bed from where the sand was illegally extracted can be found out by questioning the truck driver who was transporting the sand.
Dumping the confiscated sand at any other place on dry land could defeat the purpose as the same sand could again be transported illegally on another day.
