Chandigarh, August 27: The Punjab Pollution Control Board has written to pollution regulatory bodies in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, raising serious concern over the widespread dumping of toxic industrial and solid waste into the Sirsa rivulet. State environmental officials declared that the accumulated contamination is flowing directly into the Sutlej, endangering downstream water sources across Punjab.
The formal communication follows extensive inspections conducted by environmental teams after massive quantities of toxic debris clogged the Ropar headworks on August 23. Officials maintained that the blockage disrupted water flow and caused immediate environmental risk along the river basin.
During a joint inspection conducted on August 25 across border regions, Ropar MLA Dinesh Chadha, PPCB technical personnel, and law enforcement teams documented widespread illegal waste accumulation.
“The solid waste management site at Kenduwal is very small and solid waste is openly flowing into the Sirsa river,” stated Ropar MLA Dinesh Chadha while detailing the inspection of a municipal solid waste facility operating in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh.
Board reports affirmed that leachate from the overflowing Kenduwal processing unit is draining directly into the Sirsa riverbed. PPCB officials asserted that the crisis represents a recurring operational failure across border industrial belts rather than an isolated event, demanding immediate inter-state coordination to halt unauthorized dumping.
