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The note of Regional Office may kindly be perused...............................
The industry is medium scale red category dyeing unit and it was earlier granted consent to operate under the Air Act, 1981 vide no. CTOA/Renewal/LDH4/2020/12579273 dated 26/10/2020, upto 30/06/2025 for using rice husk as fuel in its one boiler of capacity 08 TPH with multi cyclone as APCD with certain conditions................................
The consent to operate under Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 was granted vide no. CTOW/Varied/LDH4/2023/20571318 dated 16/02/2023, which is valid upto 15.02.2024 for production of Yarn & Cloth (polyester cotton/ polyester/ cotton/ bleach white) @ 10.8 TPD and for discharge of trade effluent @ 799 KLD into sewer after treatment through ETP and domestic effluent @ 01 KLD into sewer with certain conditions................................
Now, the industry has applied renewal of consent to operate under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 through OCMMS on 22.01.2024................................
The industry has deposited consent fee, which is adequate upto 31.03.2029................................
The industry was recently visited by AEE of RO on 24.01.2024 and it was observed as under:...............................
1. The industry was in operation during the visit................................
2. The industry is engaged in dyeing of all type of yarn & fabric.
3. The industry has obtained shares of 800 KLD for CETP 40 MLD.
4. The industry has installed 08 HTHP vertical yarn dyeing machines of capacities (1x1000 Kg, 1x500 Kg, 2x300 Kg, 1x100 Kg, 1x50 Kg, 1x25 Kg and 1x5 Kg) and 09 soft flow machines (3x600 Kg, 6x300 Kg & 1x50 Kg).
5. The industry has installed a digital flow meter at the source of water supply and final outlet leading to CETP. The industry has installed SCADA system for connectivity with CETP server.
6. As per the data of SCADA, the last 06 months discharge w.r.t. to fresh water consumption of the industry is 96.02% in July, 2023, 92.64% in August, 2023, 96.56% in September, 2023, 94.42% in October, 2023, 94.80% in November, 2023 & 104.78% December, 2023.
7. As per the data of SCADA, the last 06 months average discharge of the industry w.r.t. its shareholding capacity of CETP is 67.65% in July, 2023, 83.11% in August, 2023, 82.85% in September, 2023, 83.03% in October, 2023, 74.54% in November, 2023 & 94.41% in December, 2023 and same is found within limit.
8. The industry has made arrangement for recovery & reuse of cooling water and steam condensate. The cooling water is reused in the process and steam condensate is being reused as boiler feed water.
9. The industry has installed one boilers of capacity 08 TPH with multi-cyclone separator as APCD and adequate stack height.
10. The industry has submitted letter from PDA wherein it has been mentioned that the PDA certificate that subject cited unit is our member. Their DEMAT account is opened and transfer of the shares under process.
11. The industry has submitted layout plan regarding the pipeline, source of water abstraction and disposal of effluent into PDA. It also contains the details of sewer connection disconnected with MCL prior to the PDA sewer line, which was checked during visit and it was found disconnected.
12. The industry has submitted a certificate from MCL vide letter no. 1524 dated 12.01.2024, wherein it has been mentioned that there is no active sewer connection of the industry with the MCL and all the sewer connection are closed.
It is pertinent to mention here that the wastewater sampling of the industry was carried out by the team of the concerned AEE along with Laboratory staff and as per analysis report, concentration of TDS is 2408 mg/l & pH is 8.6................................
As proposed by Regional Office, may if approved consent to operate under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 be granted 31.03.2025 with suitable conditions and with special conditions that:-
a. The industry shall not generate/discharge trade & domestic effluent more than of its shares capacity.
b. The industry shall discharge the whole consented effluent into dedicate sewer line leading to CETP for final treatment.
c. The industry will also dismantle any other connection available for discharge of effluent either into public sewer or PDA conveyer system.
d. The industry should either take measures to control its inlet parameters by good practices and selection of good chemicals for processing or shall operate and maintain its existing effluent treatment plant (ETP), regularly and efficiently, so as to achieve the inlet effluent standards of CETP as per DPR.
e. The industry shall make the necessary arrangements to achieve the effluent standards as per the inlet designed parameters of the CETP.
f. There shall be no physical expansion of the unit either with the installation of new machinery or with the permission for enhanced electricity load, after the varied consents are granted for increased discharge of effluent.
g. The industry shall stop discharging its effluent in case due to any reason the CETP is not operational or dedicated conveyance system is overflowing.
h. The industry shall maintain the record of flow meter installed at source and at the outlet leading to CETP.
i. The industry shall comply with the directions for which notice has been issued by the Board vide letter no. PPCB/CEE/HO/PS/2018/440 dated 07.06.2018 regarding not to use of inorganic colours, dyes and pigments for dyeing, printing and allied processes in the textile industry.
j. Third party audit of the dyeing units may be done in order to access the actual discharge capacity of the industries in compliance with the proceedings issued by the Board vide letter no. 4387 dated 09.08.2023.
Competency: CEE, Ludhiana
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