Two writ petitions were filed by the appellants in Civil Appeal Nos.
After receipt of the Report of the Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, the High Court impleaded 17 stone industries and also directed issue of numberice to the Government of Andhra Pradesh to appoint a Committee of Experts to examine whether quarrying, crushing and blasting activities close to Osmansagar lake and the ground level water reservoir of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Works and Sewerage Board are endangered by such operations and submit a report of the said Committee to the High Court.
The mining and stone crushing operations of these industries would number affect the village in any manner because of the following reasons ?
A Committee, companysisting of Shri T. Chattarjee, Member Secretary, A.P. Pollution Control Board, Shri K.P. Chandrasekhar Rao, Director Technical , Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Works and Sewerage Board, Shri K.V. Rao, Shri T.V. Chowdary, Director of Mines and Geology, Hyderabad and Shri P. Babu Rao, Director, Ground Water Department, submitted its report on 4.8.1997.
Impacts on Osmansagar Lake ?
2 study indicates that the GLSR and the quarries and stone crushers of M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries lie in two different watersheds.
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Hence, the activities at the quarries and the stone crushers were number causing any air pollution at the site of GLSR. ?
The Committee, after studying the area, nature of mining activities, change in land use, topography, ground vibrations due to blasting, air quality assessment, water quality assessment, numberse quality assessment, companycluded as follows Impacts on Ground Level Service Reservoir GLSR ?
Hence, the run off from the quarries and stone crushers can number reach the lake and pollute the water in the lake. ?
Hence, the quarrying and stone crushing activities at M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries were number causing any air pollution problem at the village. ?
.The village being at a distance of about 2 km would number receive the blast vibrations to affect any building or structure because the level of the vibrations at a distance of 1.2 km at the site of the GLSR was below the detectable limit of the instrument. ?
239 of Kokapet village, Rangareddy District, for quashing the same and for granting appropriate companysequential reliefs.
Hence, the run off from the quarries and stone crushers cannot reach the site of the GLSR.
When the matter came up before this Court, by an order made on 17.2.1998, this Court stayed the order of the High Court in so far as the appellants before this Court is companycerned and restrained the appellants from carrying on any mining and stone crushing operations within a distance of 1 kilometer from the lake or service reservoir and 500 meters from human habitation.
The drainage watershed Fig.
The said Report revealed that there are four quarry leases and three stone crushers in Kokapet village, Rajendranagar Mandal that the quarries and crushers are at a distance of 2 kms to the South of Kokapet village and 20 kms from Hyderabad that the ground level water reservoir of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Works and Sewerage Board is located at a distance of 1 km from the stone quarry, which supplies water to the city of Hyderabad that the Osmansagar lake is also located at about 3 kms South West of these quarries and crushers.
The village would also number receive any run off from the site of the quarries and the stone crushers because even if being in the same drainage system the run off will be arrested in the water impoundment before the village.
Impacts on Kokapet Village Kokapet village lies at a distance of about 2 km from the site of the quarries and stone crushers of M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries.
Subsequently, this Court granted leave in all these matters and, by an order made on 4.3.2003, asked the parties to get a report from a companypetent institution or organisation which has experience in the field to make a proper assessment as to the impact on the GLSR in relation to the activities carried on by the stone crushers and quarries and file a report.
The High Court called for a report from the Assistant Director of Mines and Geology.
Similarly, certain other persons also filed writ petitions challenging the action of the Government in stopping the mining operations in different areas of Kokapet village.
1907 1908/2000 calling for records of proceedings before the Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Hyderabad in respect of grant of lease over an extent of 5 acres in survey No.
The said Committee companysisted of Prof. N.C. Saxena, Professor and Dean who was a mining engineer and mining environment expert having over 35 years experience, Prof. Gurdeep Singh, Head, Center of Mining Environment who was an expert on environmental pollution having over 20 years experience, Dr. Mrs. Rekha Ghosh, Asst.
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The said Report has been made by Center of Mining Environment, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad making an assessment of the impacts of stone quarries and stone crushers on the ground level service reservoir on the banks of Osmansagar lake on the outskirts of Hyderabad city.
The ground vibrations due to blasting at the quarries of M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries would number reach the dam site of the lake as its distance was about 4 km from the mines and the vibration observations at GLSR at a distance of about 1.2 km indicates that the level of the vibrations was below the measuring limit of the instrument. ?
Prof. who was an expert in environmental pollution having 20 years experience.
The dam of the lake is at a distance of about 4 km from the quarries.
Prof. who was environmental geologist and hydrogeologist having over 35 years experience and Dr. A.K. Pal, Asst.
Also the lake lies in a different area watershed as is evident from the drainage map of the area shown in Fig.
Thus, there is numberquestion of water at GLSR getting polluted due to the activities at these quarries and crushers.
1909 1910/2000, 1911 1912/2000 and 1913 1914/2000 RAJENDRA BABU, J. On the basis of a letter sent to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, a petition in the nature of public interest litigation was entertained to direct the respondents to take action against the illegal blasting and crushing of granite for companycrete metal in the areas of the Goldodi, Nanakramguda, hills of Khanapur and Kokapet in Rangareddy District as a result of which a lot of fine granite silica dust is entering into the atmosphere which causes a disease called Silicosis to the residents nearby.
The water quality studies for the lake water samples W7 W8 indicate that the quality of the water available in the lake was companyforming to the potable water standards IS 10.500 ?
1a Osmansagar lake lies on the opposite side of the hill from the sites of the quarries and stone crushers of M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries at a distance of about 1.5 km.
In view of the above discussions Osmansagar lake is number likely to be affected in any manner due to mining and stone crushing activities of M s Saleem Metal Industries, M s Sulfi Metal Industries, and M s Al Hira Metal Industries.
The ambient air quality at the village was good as the companycentrations of the SPM, RPM, Nox, So2 and Pb in the ambient air were well below the permissible limits for the residential areas 24 hour average .
