Boards warning that water is unfit for consuming put up at contaminated sources in Erode

With the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board declaring groundwater from 37 sources throughout 4 panchayats in Chennimalai Panchayat Union unfit for consuming, native our bodies have put up boards and banners warning that the water will not be potable.

Samples from Mukasi Pidariyur, Vaipadi, Varapalayam, and Ingur panchayats, all situated inside a 12-km radius of SIPCOT, Perundurai, confirmed extreme ranges of complete dissolved solids, nitrate, calcium, and magnesium. Acting on the findings, the board directed the block improvement officer, Chennimalai Panchayat Union, to put in red-marked boards in any respect affected websites.

A senior official from the Office of the Assistant Director of Village Panchayats informed The Hindu that warning notices had been positioned in any respect the 37 sources. Groundwater right here was earlier used just for home functions, with residents receiving Cauvery water beneath the Combined Water Supply Scheme. Following the Collector’s directions, provide from the scheme has been elevated from six to 12 hours a day within the affected panchayats, the official added.

Perundurai SIPCOT Affected People’s Welfare Association coordinator S. Chinnasamy stated the groundwater contamination was as a result of discharge of effluents from industries in SIPCOT and harassed the necessity for extra checks in villages throughout the area. He additionally stated that the method to ascertain the frequent effluent remedy plant (CETP) on the Perundurai SIPCOT Industrial Park be expedited and the ability made operational on the earliest.

It could also be recalled that in a authorities perform held close to the Vijayamangalam toll gate in Perundurai on June 11, 2025, Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin introduced {that a} CETP can be established at SIPCOT, Perundurai, at an estimated value of ₹136.76 crore. The venture, being executed by the Department of Industries, Investment Promotion, and Commerce, will use Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) expertise and has a capability to deal with 2,000 kilolitres of effluents per day.