Coimbatore: Medical waste has been dumped over the Ukkadam Big Tank lender, posing danger to this public.On Wednesday afternoon, the Ukkadam authorities discovered a bag containing seven to eight insulin vials, over 50 fresh and used syringes plus a few health care prescriptions around the lake bank, only reverse Ukkadam bus rack.
Police shortly got a individual to clean the same.Meanwhile, a few hundred fishes have been discovered dead in Valankulam lake.
Residents in the vicinity of the lake, most of these fishermen, stated the fishes could have died due to oxygen deficit that was due to considerable water hyacinth rise and ban fishing activities.D Shaful Ahmed, a local fisherman, even ruled out the chance of poisoning.
“On a normal daywe capture over 300kg.
For the last twenty days, due to absence of fishing activities, there appears to have a sudden growth in fish population, which united with all the water hyacinth proliferation, could have left them with no sufficient oxygen”