Officials of the Goa State Pollution Control Board on Monday descended on the Cuncolim Industrial Estate to probe into the discharge of effluents in an abandoned stone quarry by some food processing factories. After inspection of the stone quarry, the team has collected water samples from the quarry and also samples of water from the effluent treatment plants of a fish meal and a fish processing unit. GSPCB Chairman Jose Manuel Noronha informed that the team visited the stone quarry and also inspected the ETPs of the fish meal plant and the fish processing unit. “We have collected water samples from both the quarry and the fish meal plant and the fish processing unit and will test them to find out whether the samples match,” Noronha said. Admitting that there’s been discharge of effluents in the stone quarry, he said the GSPCB team has also found tyre marks near quarry, throwing up the question whether any tanker had unloaded effluents in the water body. “The report of the water contamination and the source of the effluents will be known in a couple of days after the samples are tested in the GSPCB lab,” he added. Meanwhile, the GSPCB Chairman has disclosed plans to soon call a meeting with industrialists and owners of factories, assering that meant business as far as pollution in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate was concerned.