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Site visit report of M/s Ceres Hotel (The Leela Goa), 04/07/2022

  • 04/07/2022

Site Visit Report in OA No.185/2017 (WZ) (Cavelossim Villagers Forum V/s Village Panchayat of Cavelossim, Salcete, Goa & Ors.).

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed a joint committee to visit M/s Ceres Hotel Pvt Ltd (The Leela Goa) regarding the complaint that the hotel was discharging its wastewater into river Sal.

The report said that the hotel has a sewage treatment plant of 500 KLD for treatment of domestic sewage. Treated water is used for gardening. As per the consent to operate conditions granted by the Goa State Pollution Control Board, the unit has provided continuous online water quality monitoring system for water flowing from the lagoon into the hume pipe emptying into river Sal. There was no pipeline of sewage connected in the lagoon.