Efforts are on to neutralise diesel contamination in groundwater at Pariyapuram near Perinthalmanna. Several wells in the region have been contaminated following a major diesel spill after a tanker overturned on a slope on August 20.
Fire and Rescue Services personnel burnt the diesel that contaminated the water in a large well of a convent at Pariyapuram on Thursday. Although the diesel burnt for 15 minutes with heavy flames, the presence of diesel was found in the well on Friday as well.
Apart from the well in the convent compound, a well in the house of a person named Biju Thomas was also contaminated heavily on Friday. “Prolonged burning is not practical. We will have to drain the contaminated well water as part of preventing the spread of contamination further down the area,” said Baburajan C., Fire Station Officer, Perinthalmanna.
