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Sethu project: panel sees no major environmental change
Staff Reporter
MADURAI: The Monitoring Committee on Environmental Impact Issues of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project has found no major environmental change due to dredging in the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar.
After review of the ecological impact by the reconstituted panel here on Monday, its chairman S. Ramachandran said a stringent monitoring system was in place ever since dredging started in July 2006. Water, sedimentation, noise and air quality were being monitored every four hours and eight hours, on a weekly and monthly basis and across various seasons. “The monitoring has established that there is no major change in environment. Even the minor changes reported were well within the natural variability,” Prof. Ramachandran said. “There is an increase in fish catch. Hence, the fear of environmentalists is not substantiated. Scientific monitoring has proved that the changes are insignificant.”
Denying the allegation that improper dumping of dredged sand had led to grounding of fish boats, Prof. Ramachandran said the dumping was being carried out away from the shore. He attributed the grounding of boats to changes in the seabed following the tsunami.
On the charge that the sea was remaining rough for a longer period due to the dredging, he said it was due to climatic changes triggered by global warming.
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Prof. Ramachandran said the Adam’s Bridge was a natural phenomenon and that only 0.5 per cent of the land mass (300 metres) was being dredged.
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