35 Million Litres of Untreated Sewage Flows into Ganga Daily in Haridwar

In Haridwar, more than 35 million litres per day (MLD) of untreated sewage is going directly into the mainstream of Ganga.

Sewage discharge, source: Pixabay

This is according to officials at the Ganga maintenance unit of Jal Sansthan which has the responsibility to maintain sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Haridwar.

"The installed capacity at our sewage treatment plants (STP) at Jagjeetpur is just 45 MLD. Rest of the sewage waste received by the plant which is around 35 MLD has to be drained without treatment into the mainstream of Ganga since we do not have the capacity to treat the excess sewage," said Ajay Kumar, executive engineer of the Ganga maintenance unit of Jal Sansthan.

Haridwar generates around 80 to 90 MLD sewage daily with the figure touching upto 120 MLD during fairs and festivals. The two operational STPs in the city located at Jagjeetpur with installed capacities of 27 MLD and 18 MLD prove to be woefully inadequate in handling the quantum of sewage that requires processing.

Although 2 more STPs are proposed to be built with installed capacities of 68 and 40 MLDs each, their construction hasn't started yet. According to Jal Sansthan officials, it will take almost 2 years for the new STPs to get ready.

Meanwhile, the river continues to get polluted. On July 13, NGT had in an exhaustive order recommended a slew of measures to keep the Ganga clean including imposing a fine of Rs 50,000 on those found polluting the river in the stretch between Haridwar and Unnao. However, no action has been taken so far in Haridwar or any fine imposed on persons or institutions who are polluting the river.

Read full article: Times of India

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5 Comments

1. Its high time when all stake holders start thinking in terms of utilizing CSR ( Corporate) money for such requirement. All stake holder like Hotels, Ashrams, Group housing societies , Hospitals, Industries should start treating and reusing waste water at their premises. 

   All water whether fresh or waste even treated sholud not be allowed to discharge in River.

   Special arrangement should be made to stop strom water in to the river.

   Horticulture department should be advisd to use treated waste water only.

   Treated waste water distribution net work should be made for this water should also be used for irrigation , Construction etc.

    

2. Hello

   This title makes me smile at the same time leap before the incredulity of the people who propagate this information

   At the world level, 700 billion liters of wastewater is released into natural hydraulic media.

   Out of these 700 billion a third are rejected directly without any other form of cleaning process but without any risk to the environment because this wastewater is not impregnated with chemical pollution.

   On the other hand, the remaining three thirds under the guise of network infrastructures for collecting collective sanitation or regulatory semblance of a storage device such as the so-called septic tank which will be drained to see the transfer of its contents to a STGEP Which it rejects into the environment without any other form of trial.

   I prefer a thousand times the first third, which has no effect on the health of individuals, than a liter of waste water from the highly developed countries, which will be impregnated with chemicals.

   To date, there is no device for purifying the pollution of domestic wastewater. Just filtration systems that store their residues before they get rid of them in one way or another in the environment

   A STEP communicates on a project that it has just realized: improvement of its discharge of water in the Mediterranean Sea. By studying the project very ready in fact it obtained a grant to extend its tube of dispersion in the sea more than 5 kilometers.

   This way she can better disperse her rejection.

3. It is a fit case for booking the state and ULB for such gross negligence and criminal action, It also calls for putting the untreated sewage thru Tube Mill to arrest the muck and at least release clear water into the river system until STP can be constructed.

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   1. What do you think PTS will do better? Since the principle of wastewater management remains virtually the same everywhere in the world: natural hydraulic water surfaces serve as waste bins for wastewater.

      The STP will decant, filter and discharge the liquid into the gangway. What will become of the filtration residues? Nothing will be dumped after a while in the gangway. Or they will be incinerated creating air pollution. Or they will be dispersed in agricultural soil despite all the chemical pollution, dissolved in the liquid. And what becomes of the urine which in contact transforms its urea into ammonia making the liquid very toxic?

      Billions of dollars will be invested in STP infrastructure for nothing. Reassure yourself it's the same in all countries

4. we can use decentralised STP at point of generation and treat the sewage to recycle locally 

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   1. R.K. : You hit the nail on the head. The residential bio digesters have been around for some time.  So many people are unaware how many riches are in their waste. Macro and micro nutrients.   Decentralizations stops many problems. All waste is processed. D/C rain water collection and use/storage. D/C composting and compost teas. ( no more need for chemical fertilizers or pesticides).  D/C food production, use, sell, long term storage.  When comfortable with all of the above more on to bio generator. With any other alternative systems.   Good luck.  

5. Sewage biodegrading is quite simple. Volume is no a problem. Doing nothing is a problem.  I am sorry but I have been a member of the group for more than a year. All I read is complaining. No one has the slightest idea what to do. Obviously you can not fine dirt poor people.  Teach them how to collect rainwater, take garbage and make compost, grow their own vegetables, Recycle all waste into this compost.  When a majority of people are doing this you can then introduce the biogenerators.  When you use RNA microbes they collect electrons, you have free electricity.  many other benefits from doing things natures way.  If any one really care please contact me.  If in India then skype is best. guy_mcgowen

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   1. Hello Guy that error in your post

      If the biodegradation of organic matter was so simple, why has not it been done so far?

      The biodegradation of wastewater does not exist. This term is exclusively reserved for a process of elimination of organic matter.

      Why then all the infrastructures of the developed countries produce as much residues of mud of excrement if the biodegradation is also efficient?

      In Biological Sanitation this process of biodegradation of organic matter is the only function used. Except that to obtain a probative result it takes between 12 and 15 days. But above all, the effluent must be totally biological.

      This implies that it is not possible to make a NATURAL process, therefore biological, in a chemical or chemical effluent.

      What an error this collection of rainwater. It is once again a human action to unbalance the ecosystem of our planet to the same title as desalination.

      Compost is not a fertilizer for the soil, it is poison. Only the Living can nourish the Living. Outside the compost is the residue of composting that it has not managed to eliminate naturally. What can be said of the soil whose conditions are diametrically opposed?

      Composting is used only to eliminate some of the plant organic matter. But as it does not quite succeed, there are residues of mud. Mud is an inert non-fertilizing organic matter, a poison for the environment

      I think it is with ideas like these that the world understands nothing more / the proof? The problem of wastewater is the same in India as in rural area than in all the ultra-developed countries: result NUL