Howrah Action Plan
Howrah Action Plan
Pollution
Abatement Action Plans
for the Industrial Clusters
in West Bengal
Howrah
1. INTRODUCTION
For Bamungachi Area : Bamungachi industrial cluster identified for CEPI is not
defined as such.
1.2 Location
For Jalan Industrial Complex : The complex comprises of Mouza- Begri, Baniara &
Biprannapara. New industries are constantly being set up, increasing the area of the
complex.
For Bamungachi Area : Area under Malipanchghora, Liluah, Bally, Bantra Police
Stations. Those areas are mostly coming under Howrah Municipal Corporation area.
Fig. –1
Fig. -3: Boundary (in Red line) of critically polluted area by CPCB at
Jalan Industrial Complex
For Jalan Industrial Complex : No sensitive receptor within its impact zone.
1.6.2 Ecological Parks, Sanctuaries, flora and fauna or any eco sensitive
zones
1.7 Industry Classification and distribution (no. of industries per 10 sq. km.
area or fraction)
2. WATER ENVIRONMENT
2.1 Present status of water environment supported with minimum one year
analytical data –
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Major water polluting industries are – 02 nos.
vegetable oil refining and processing industry, 20 nos. galvanising industry, 05 nos. of
industries with pickling facility, 03 nos. dyeing and bleaching industry. Little amount
of process effluent is generated from coal tar distillation plants.
Besides this, effluent is generated due to floor wash and vessel wash of miscellaneous
industries like paint blending, biscuits manufacturing etc. Effluent generation of
vegetable oil processing industries and dyeing & bleaching industries is continuous
where as effluent generation from galvanising industry and cold rolling industries are
intermittent. Vegetable oil processing industries have their Effluent Treatment Plant
comprising biological treatment system and all galvanising industries and cold rolling
mills have individual treatment system with physico chemical process of treatment. At
present two vegetable oil processing industries generate at the rate of 15KL/day of
effluent in total. Total generation of effluent per day from twenty number galvanising
industry may be 20 KL. Industries with pickling process is 5 KL in total considering
average generation of effluent per day from each industry is 1 KL. Three number
dyeing and bleaching industry generates 75KL per day (considering effluent
generation rate of individual industry is 25KL/day). Besides this industrial cooling
water of different cooling system, boiler blow down water and floor wash and vessel
washes and domestic effluent may be added.
Though all water polluting industries are having individual treatment system, those
appear to be under designed and remained idle and unattended during operation due to
various reasons. The Board has been persuing the industries for a long time and
several punitive actions have been taken the defaulting units. Conditions of the
effluent carrying drain/canal reflect the above fact. CEPI index also corroborates the
above fact.
2.1.1 Water bodies/effluent receiving drains in the area important for water
quality monitoring. -
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
2.2.1 Industrial -
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Vegetable oil processing industries have their Effluent
Treatment Plant comprising biological treatment system and all galvanising
industries and cold rolling mills have individual treatment system with physico
chemical process of treatment. At present two vegetable oil processing industries
generate at the rate of 15KL/day of effluent in total. Total generation of effluent per
day from twenty number galvanising industry may be 20 KL. Industries with pickling
process is 5 KL in total considering average generation of effluent per day from each
industry is 1 KL. Three number dyeing and bleaching industry generates 75KL per
day (considering effluent generation rate of individual industry is 25KL/day).Besides
this industrial cooling water of different cooling system, boiler blow down water and
floor wash and vessel washes and domestic effluent may be added.
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
2.2.2 Domestic –
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Domestic effluent due to workers employed for
industrial activity
2.2.3 Others (Agricultural runoff, leachate from MSW dump, illegal dump
site etc.) -
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Though all water polluting industries are having
individual treatment system,those appear to be under designed and remained idle and
unattended during operation due to various reasons. Conditions of the effluent
carrying drain/canal reflect the above fact. CEPI index also corroborates the above
fact.
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Major water polluting industries are – 02 nos.
vegetable oil refining and processing industry, 20 nos. galvanising industry, 05 nos. of
industries with pickling facility, 03 nos. dyeing and bleaching industry. Little amount
of process effluent is generated from coal tar distillation plants. Besides this, effluent
is generated due to floor wash and vessel wash of miscellaneous industries like paint
blending, biscuits manufacturing etc.
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : At present two vegetable oil processing industries
generate at the rate of 15KL/day of effluent in total. Total generation of effluent per
day from twenty number galvanising industries may be 20 KL. Industries with
pickling process are 5 KL in total considering average generation of effluent per day
from each industry is 1 KL. Three number dyeing and bleaching industry generates
75KL per day (considering effluent generation rate of individual industry is
25KL/day). Besides this industrial cooling water of different cooling system, boiler
blow down water and floor wash and vessel washes and domestic effluent may be
added.
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Individual units all having their own ETPs.
For Bamungachi Area : The units of area are predominantly air polluting in nature.
Water polluting individual units are having their own ETPs.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : The industries in the area are kept under constant
surveillance. Punitive action has been taken against the defaulting units.
For Bamungachi Area : The industries in the area are kept under constant
surveillance. Punitive action has been taken against the defaulting units.
For Bamungachi Area : Road and drainage condition of the Bamungachi Industrial
Area needs to be upgraded.
For Bamungachi Area : The concerned authority may be requested to improve the
road condition and provide necessary infrastructure.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : De-silting of the canal carrying effluent of the complex
is required.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Embankment of the canal and construction of internal
lined drainage system needs to be developed.
For Bamungachi Area : Existence of industries which are predominantly air polluting
in nature.
3. AIR ENVIRONMENT
3.1 Present status of Air Environment supported with minimum one year
analytical data -
For Jalan Industrial Complex : The main emission of these units is due to burning of
fossil fuel like coal and furnace oil. The cast iron foundry units are mainly equipped
with Dry Cyclone and Wet Scrubber as Air Pollution Control Device whereas Steel
Foundries and Coal-fired Boilers of different industries are generally equipped with
Cyclone/Wet Scrubber/Bag Filter (Please refer to Table-1).
For Bamungachi Area : The area is a dense conglomerate of industry and human
settlement. Population density of the area may be the highest among the peer cities of
the country. Due to this threat of urbanization and unplanned sporadic settlement of
industries, poor infrastructure has gradually became worse. Poor road condition
continues to defile ambient air quality to a great extent (Please refer to Table-2).
For Bamungachi Area : 01 no. Automatic Air Quality Monitoring Station (AAAQM)
station is in existence.
For Jalan Industrial Complex : No available data [However, ambient air quality of two
areas near Jalan Industrial Complex is given in Table –1]
Station Month Nov. 2009 Dec. 2009 Apr. 2010 May. 2010
RPM(µg/m3) 147 205 100 68
Dhulagarh SO2(µg/m3) 11.7 15.1 12.8 8.6
NO2(µg/m3) 86.8 104.2 75.0 67.3
RPM(µg/m3) 124 163 92 60
Sankrail SO2(µg/m3) 9.4 12.7 9.8 6.8
NO2(µg/m3) 71.7 89.8 68.2 58.9
Sulfur Di
µg/m3 20.35 30.96 32.69 19.36 21.08 9.75 28.59 16.07 24.17 20.2 2.17
Oxide
Nitrogen Di
µg/m3 21 26 36 38 19 18 19 19 20 19 22
Oxide
Respirable
Particulate µg/m3 130 113 115 141 146 85 86 71 75 59 56
Mater
Ozone ppb 24.06 17.45 17.9 10.35 16.67 14 13.35 13.53 13.15 12.58 10.82
Carbon
Monoxide(00: mg/m3 0.45 0.58 0.61 0.91 0.74 N.A. 0.51 0.44 0.49 0.43 0.37
00 to 08:00)
Carbon
Monoxide(08: mg/m3 0.62 0.69 0.77 0.87 0.55 N.A. 0.6 0.45 0.52 0.45 0.49
00 to 16:00)
Carbon
Monoxide(16: mg/m3 0.61 0.75 0.76 1.51 0.57 N.A. 0.63 0.52 0.55 0.54 0.49
00 to 24:00)
For Jalan Industrial Complex : Major air polluting industries are – 03 nos. CI
Foundry, 03 nos. Steel Foundry with rolling mill, 02 nos. Rolling mill, 02 nos.
Plywood factory, 04 nos. Zinc processing unit, 05 nos. Secondary Lead Smelting, 20
nos. Hot Dip Galvanizing Unit, 02 nos. Vegetable oil refining and processing
industry, 01 no. Silicate Mfg. Unit, 03 nos. Dyeing and Bleaching industry, 01 no.
Cement Unit, 02 nos. Forging Unit.
For Bamungachi Area : The cluster is predominantly one comprising of about 150
nos. Cast Iron Foundries, 50 nos. re-rolling mills, some forging units and galvanising
units and numerous engineering units. A few number of secondary lead smelting units
are also operating in the area. However, Cast Iron Foundries may be considered as the
main contributor of air pollution in the area.
3.4 Impact of activities of nearby area on the CEPI Area – There are number
of industries in the close proximity of CEPI area. However, the impact of those
industries over CEPI can visualised on the basis of ambient air quality report given in
Table – 1 & 2.
Coal/Oil fired rolling mills may be converted into gas fired by installation of coal
gasifier plant. For such conversion 01 (one) year time may be allowed. For existing
foundries which operates using old technology may be directed to adopt following
quality and environment improvement measures -
For Bamungachi Area : Improvement of roads of the locality will be done by HMC.
For Bamungachi Area : Total quantity is 1821 Kg/day. All the healthcare units is
registered with common biomedical waste treatment and disposal facility.
5. PPP Model –
5.1 Identification of project proposals (for both the options i.e. technology
intervention and infrastructure renewal) for implementation under the PPP
mode under the Action Plan- Under consideration.
7. Specific Schemes: