Kochi: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the state’s first septage treatment plant at Brahmapuram on Saturday.
The plant using modern technology, with a capacity of treating one lakh litre waste per day, will help to resolve the issue of dumping toilet waste in open places creating serious health hazards.
The KSUDP funded plant, set up at a cost of Rs 4.25 crore, can convert septage waste into sludge and water. The sludge would be odourless and the water not polluted.
The city corporation and the state government’s Clean Kerala Company will jointly run the plant, set up on a 40-cent land owned by the civic body.
Several tanker lorries in the city are currently engaged in collecting toilet waste from residential and commercial apartments. In the absence of treatment facilities, they dump them into drains, open spaces and wetlands during the night. The unscientific system pollute water sources.
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