Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Environment Minister Alex Sequeira said that a private agency has expressed interest in investing into a system for beach shack sewerage management and government is in talks them.
The agency will invest in pipelines, collection tanks etc and the shack operators will have to pay the agency as per usage.
A meeting of the agency and the shack operators was held in this regards today.
The agency has been asked by the govt to conduct a survey and study the ground realities in the coastal belt and give the shack operators association a proposal regarding sewage management of beach shacks.
The next meeting will be held by the Department in this regards on Dec 20 to take the matter forward, the minister added.
Shack owners, for the past several years, have been raising the issue of the treatment of sewage generated in the shacks.
Issue of connections and operation of the Colva STP, CRZ issue and demarcation of private forests were also discussed at the meet.
He also said that currently, the sewage treatment plant at Colva, which is ready, doesn’t have a receiving point. The particular system will have to be put in place.
Several members of the public also raised their issues before the minister including those relating to CRZ, private forests and water sports in Salcete.