The Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation (NMSCDCL) is planning to use ozonation technology to treat the Godavari River water at Ramkund. A meeting between the smart city officials,
Environmentalists and officials from a Nagpur-based private firm, which manufactures ozone generators used to treat sewage, were held on in October. The smart city officials have asked the firm to give demonstrations on the ozone plant that could be set up at Ramkund. The trials are likely to be conducted before municipal commissioner Kailas Jadhav and NMSCDCL CEO Sumant More. Rajesh Pandit, an environmentalist, and petitioner in the Godavari pollution case, who was also present in the meeting, said, Ramkund has its own importance as lakhs of sadhus and devotees take a holy dip here during the Kumbh Mela held in Nashik once every 12 years. Thousands of devotees from across the country visit Ramkund every day. Most of them take a holy dip and some even carry the water with them as ‘tirtha’. So, the water pure considering the health of the devotees”, said Pandit.
“The ozone technology is already being used at some places in the country. The company will soon give actual trials on how the ozonation wastewater treatment.
