The zilla parishads water and sanitation department has proposed setting up of sewage treatment Plants (STP) at five locations along theBhima riverstretch to check pollution in the water body.
The STPs will come up atKoregaon Bhima, Perne in Haveli, Rahu and Mandavgun Pharata in Shirur and Daund tehsils, respectively, and Bhigwan inIndapurtehsil. We have asked people to give suggestions on the project, before sending the proposal to the for budgetary sanction, said a senior ZP official. A senior official from theMaharashtra Pollution Control Board, said, Industrial effluents and sewage from housing societies are released in the allied rivers of the Bhima. So, the STPs on these rivers are necessary.
The state government plans to make Bhima river pollution-free. The river resembles the shape of the moon in the town and devotees come to take a holy dip in the river before going for the darshan of Lord Vitthal and Rukmini at Pandharpur temple.