Faridabad: Greens allege leakage of leachate from hazardous waste treatment plant Gurgaon News | Tech Reddy

GURGAON: A group of environmentalists has complained to the state pollution board about leakage of leachate from a 31-acre private facility that treats electrical, plastic and industrial waste. Pali Village of Faridabad.
Fearing that leachate may originate from hazardous waste, they have attempted to test the groundwater at the site located in Aravali.

Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) Chairman P Raghavendra Rao told TOI they will conduct an inspection. “We will collect samples and check if there is any leachate… but the site has been operational for more than ten years,” he said on Wednesday.
Activists, some of whom likened the plant to a “mini-Bandhwari”, said they saw a pool of leachate (viscous secretion from waste) near the plant while trekking in Aravali on November 12. They submitted pictures and videos of it. Site with HSPCB for now.
Gurugram-based environmentalist Lt Col Sarbadaman Singh Oberoi (retd) said, “A leachate has spread in the Pali forest. Also, the site has accumulated a large amount of hazardous waste, making it a mini-Bandhwari.” Who was among the group who saw the pond.
He was referring to the Bandhwari waste factory on the Gurugram-Faridabad road, where a 38-metre-high mountain of garbage now stands. Villagers living around the landfill have repeatedly complained of leachate and groundwater pollution, and the claims have been proven correct in several cases.
In the case of Pali, activists said any leakage or improper processing is particularly harmful because the waste treated there is industrial and hazardous.
According to a 2008 report by the Central Ground Water Board, they are concerned that groundwater contamination in Pali – a recharge zone for downstream areas – will eventually flow downstream to neighboring Gurugram and parts of Delhi.
“We are apprehensive that the leachate will be toxic. We request you to visit a site and collect samples of the leachate for testing and to immediately remove the remaining leachate which has not yet accumulated in the ground. Appropriate action should be taken as per law. Serious damage to Gurugram water bodies. to punish the culprits for doing so,” forest analyst Chetan Agarwal said in a complaint to the HSPCB on Wednesday.
Sources from the Gujarat-based company, which operates the waste plant on land leased by the Faridabad Municipal Corporation (MCF), have been processing electrical, plastic and industrial waste since 2009.
“The allegations are not true. The plant cannot discharge any leachate as we process the waste in such a way that it contains zero liquid waste. We also carried out an environmental impact assessment before commissioning the plant,” the source said.