Environmental Regulations for establishing a new water treatment plant

[Vidhu Tripathi]

Dear Members

I want to know weather EIA is required for establishing a large (say 80 MGD capacity with land area of 9.3 ha ) water treatment plant or not.

 

If EIA is not required what are the other Environmental Regulations need to be consider starting the construction.

 

Kindly give the quick reply

 

 

Regards

 

Vidhu Tripathi

 

 

 

[Aboud Jumbe]

Environmental Clearance may be needed.

 

Please Visit this link on the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, for more details:

 

http://164.100.194.5:8081/ssdn1/

 

Specifically on this:

 

http://164.100.194.5:8081/ssdn1/jspfiles/doc/ommodel3.html

 

There should be an interesting information relevant to your query on Common Effluent Plants.

[joshi]

Hi

There is no any seperate clause for Clearance of water and waste water treatment plant except CETP.As you said,total area of proposed WTP is 9.3 (93,000 sqm) and as per EIA notification ,Clearance is required if total area of construction is > 20,000 sqm and its considered as Construction /area development activity.(8)

 

For your project ,Clearance should be required from concerned SPCB.

I think you need to take permission from Irrigation Dep(If source is surface water ) for this much amount of water withdrawal

 

Regards

Bhargav Joshi

 

[Dr. Hemalkumar Naik]

As it is already replied by Mr. Joshi, you need to go for EC for Infrastructure Project. For Water Treatment the EC is not required and even for STP it is not required but it may require EC if are of development is bigger as mentioned in Schedule of SO 1533, you need to go for Infrastructure/construction project.

[sudhir punnapa patil]

Dear member

 

for the consruction of water and waste water treament plant in large scale it is requiered Take EIA report.

it is depending upon site condition ,if ur site is in forest ,then permission should be taken from forest dept.for tree cutting and replantion,if ur site  in dense population so rehabilation of people is requried.during construction activity  impact of construction work to surrounding area. so  it is requried to consider what is the impact  on surrounding area.

regards

sudhir patil.

[Vidhu Tripathi]

dear members

 

Thanks for your quick reply.

 

May I know if there is any case of Environmental Clearance for WTP, any where in India.

 

Regards

Vidhu Tripathi

[joshi]

Dear All
Even I did not see any Clearance regarding WTP. But If project is Funded by ADB or World bank then It should be required Initial Environmental Examination(IEE) as per their format along with legilative requirement of GoI.

Regards
Bhargav Joshi

[sudhir punnapa patil]

Dear member,

 

some of projects like sewage disposal in Mumbai , they had prepared EIA report for WTP and STP.here iam Attaching this report for your refrence.

 

regards

sudhir patil.

[Palle Sudhir]

 

Sir,

 

EIA is a must for this mega project since it concerns with discharge of treated effluents.

Huge volume of effluent will travel to far off places including rivers forests, treams and adjacent to agriclutural fileds. Therefore it is a must. Importantly EIA must be true to the findings.

 

Regards

Sudhir

 

[Palle Sudhir]

Vidhu Tripathi said:

dear members

 

Thanks for your quick reply.

 

May I know if there is any case of Environmental Clearance for WTP, any where in India.

 

Regards

Vidhu Tripathi

 

Your question is not clear WTP means what?Shall I take it as WTP for potable water? or Shall take it as  CETP or shall I take it for WTP for power house?

Palle Sudhir

[Vidhu Tripathi]

DEAR SUDHIR

 

I AM DISCUSSING WTP FOR DRINKING WATER/POTABLE WATER OF BIG SIZE AS MENTIONED EARLIER.

 

VIDHU TRIPATHI

[Prof Dr V N Sivasankara Pillai]

Dear Mr Tripathi,

Your question is very relevant. In any case it requires an EIA clearance.

1. It involves resource abstraction from a source, processing, and rejection of process wastes. It comes under the definition of industry. The ground that EIA rules do not define water utility as an industry is not a justification for avoiding EIA clearance. The health of the source (say a river), ecological needs of the river, conflict of interests among users of the river, impact of waste discharge on land and river, etc must be predicated and mitigation measures must be planned. The selection of treatment technology itself must be scrutinized during EIA process.

[prashant]

I want to know the purpose of the WTP (ie drinking water treatment plant), this will be run by the municipal corporation for drinking water supply or will be used for the packaging / bottling drinking of water.