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Basin
Sub-Basin Inventory of Water Pollution - Mahanadi Basin
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Foreword
The Mahanadi Basin
is one of the developing regions of the central and peninsular India
in agriculture and industry. There are 40 large and 82 medium industrial
units operating in the basin. The important industrial regions in
the basin are Bhilai, Durg, Raipur , Rajnandgaon, Korba, Urla and
Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh; and Paradeep, Nayagarh, Badama, Baragarh,
Brajrajnagar, Rampur and Hirakud in Orissa. The river encompassess
the important urban centres of Raipur, Bhilainagar, Bilaspur, Durg,
Cut tack, Bhubaneswar , Sambalpur and Puri. These urban and industrial
centres are intensively utilising the water resources; and, as a consequence
there is deterioration in the water quality in river Mahanadi from
Sambhalpur to Sonepur, and in the reach of Cut tack township. The
water quality is deteriorated in the Seonath, Arpa and Ib tributaries
by the wastewater generated from urban centres as well as paper mill
effluents subsequently
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study reported herein was undertaken with the objective of formulating
an action plan to restore and maintain the river water quality at
such levels as are needed to sustain the designated best use of the
different stretches of the river. The State pollution Control Boards
of Madhya Pradesh and Orissa collected the basic data for the respective
parts of the basin. The reports were reviewed, compiled, edited and
presented in the form of Comprehensive River Basin report by the State
Prevention and Control of pollution Board, Orissa according to the
guidelines of the central Board. |
Dilip Biswas
Chairman, CPCB
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