Assessment of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in the industrial clusters comprising of medium and small scale industries
Small Scale Industries (SSI) generally find it difficult to establish and operate individual effluent treatment plant due to their limited size and scale of operations. However, as SSI are generally located at industrial areas/estates, the concept of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the effluents from the industrial cluster has been developed to achieve satisfactory treatment through collective efforts. The monitoring and enforcement of a CETP as a single pollution source also become easier for regulatory agencies as compared to monitoring of large number of ETPs of individual SSI units.
Central Pollution Control Board carried out study during 2011-12 for assessment of actual need for common effluent treatment plants in the country and to know the industrial clusters to be serviced by these CETPs. The study has revealed that 193 Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) have been installed in the country, which serve 212 industrial areas/estates.
Directions/Communications issued by CPCB regarding CETP are as follows:
The report gives following recommendations:
- Directions under Section-18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to Haryana SPCB regarding Non Compliance in CETP - Industrial Estate, Phase-IV, Kundli, Haryana dated 20.08.2018
- Directions under Section-18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to Haryana SPCB regarding Non Compliance in CETP - HUDA Panipat, Haryana
- Directions under Section-18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to Haryana SPCB regarding Non Compliance in CETP - HSIIDC I.E, Murthal, Sonepat, Haryana
- Directions under Section-18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to UPSPCB regarding Non Compliance in CETP - Mathura located at Industrial area, Site-A, Mathura, UP
- Communication to all SPCBs/PCCs of 18 States/UTs where CETPs existed (Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand) during June, 2017 regarding monitoring of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) and prescribing inlet quality norms for compliance of member industries as per MoEF&CC Notification dated 1/1/2016.
- Direction under Section 5 of EPA, 1986 regarding Improvement in performance of CETP Govindpura, Bhopal (MP), dated 20th June, 2017
- Communication to Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to take necessary action for improvement in performance of FETP Ankleshwar, Gujarat and to take action against defaulting units, dated 17th March, 2017.
- Communication to Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to take necessary action for improvement in performance of CETP Vatva, Gujarat and to take action against defaulting units, dated 23th February, 2017.
- Direction under Section 5 of EPA, 1986 regarding Improvement in performance of FETP Ankleshwar, Gujarat, dated 9th December, 2016
- Direction under Section 5 of EPA, 1986 regarding Improvement in performance of CETP Vatva, Gujarat, dated 9th December, 2016.
- Directions under Section 18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, vide letter no. PCI-SSI/CETPs Monitoring Direction/2016, dated 31st March, 2016, to SPCBs of 18 States/UTs where CETPs existed then (Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand) regarding monitoring of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs)
- under Section-5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, vide letter no. PCI-SSI/CETPs-CEMS/2015, dated 23rd September, 2015, to all CETPs w.r.t. installation of online continuous effluent monitoring system.
- Direction under Section-18(1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, to all SPCBs and PCCs vide letter no. B-29016/04/06/PCI-I/5404, dated 5th February, 2014, to direct the CETPs to install Online Continuous Effluent Monitoring System (OCEMS) for measurement of the sector-specific parameters and connect and upload the monitoring data at the servers of SPCBs/PCCs and CPCB
- Directions under Section-18 (1) (b) of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 to SPCBs of 12 States/UTs where CETPs were located (Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and West Bengal) vide letter No. B-22013/2/PCI-III/2008, dated 2nd September, 2008.