NGO Vanashakti had filed a petition before the NGT, Pune bench, to clean up the Ulhas river. The Waldhuni river flows into the Ulhas river and further this flows via the Ulhas creek into the sea.
The NGT had then warned that if the corporation did not clean up its act, it would be constrained to direct the secretary, state urban development department to take over the corporation and deal with the problems of pollution in the area.
In its affidavit filed before the NGT, Vanashakti had pointed out that at village Gauripada and Bandarpada where the Waldhuni River meets Ulhas large agricultural areas were being irrigated using toxic effluent water.
''The stench of chemicals here is so strong that it is almost impossible to stand in the area. I apprehend the poisoning of the food chain as a result of these actions and pray that the practice be immediately stopped and alternate water sources provided for the farmers,'' said D Stalin, director, Vanashakti, in the affidavit.
The affidavit said industries in Dombivli MIDC were discharging effluents into the storm water drains and also into open areas inside the MIDC area. It informed the tribunal that there had been no change in the situation at NRC bund Shahad where the Khemani nullah carrying the untreated sewage from Ulhasnagar emptied into the drinking water pumping zone. Similar discharge of sewage was happening upstream, it said.
Vanashakti had sought criminal proceedings to be initiated against the municipal heads of Badlapur and Ulhasnagar for endangering human life and polluting the river.
While jeans washing and textile washing units in Ulhasnagar were discharging polluted into the river in violation of the tribunal's orders, the discharges from Badlapur MIDC were not being treated properly, it said.
In its further hearings on the same matter in August, NGT had even directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to shut down all polluting industries in the Ulhas river belt.
''Industries that did not even have a consent to operate from the MPCB approached the Bombay high court in August, did not disclose that the NGT had passed orders and obtained stay orders against closure. A similar thing happened in case of industries along the Mithi river. The MPCB is the facilitator in all these cases as it keeps silent when matters come up in the high court,'' said Stalin.
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