A Department of Environment team on Sunday realised Tk 71.36 lakh in fine from two dyeing factories, one in the capital and the other in an area adjacent to it, for not using any effluent treatment plant and thus polluting the River Turag.
DoE director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, accompanied by members of the Rapid Action Battalion-2, raided Landmark Fabrics Limited and Mark Terry Limited and found that the factories were discharging untreated liquid waste into the river.
The team tested the waste and found that the oxygen level in it was only 0.32, and .12 mg per litre
The water of Turag at the spots, where liquid waste was being dumped, was found to contain 0.52mg of oxygen per litre, a DoE release said.
The normal quantity of oxygen in water should range between 4.5mg and 4.8mg per litre.
The factories were ordered to stop releasing waste into the river immediately or their operations would be banned.
Source : New Age
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