According to sources on november 29, the city's chennai woke up to a frothing marina shoreline, spewing foam onto the city's iconic beach. It is a sight that they have witnessed every year, but within the next three days it has become apparent that this is no yearly phenomenon rather than a monsoon, as they believed . Previously on december 2, the foam came up to their waistlines and almost entered their homes, alarming the residents in the area.
Furthermore, when TNM visited the spot and later engaged environmentalists, it became clear that this was the result of a toxic cocktail of raw sewage mixed with sea water. Perhaps it was caused by the city's unchecked dumping of domestic and industrial effluents in its water bodies. Sources in the tamilnadu pollution Control Board (TNPCB) attribute the foam to farm fertilizers and pesticides that were washed into the sea with rain water and when the TNM accessed a november 29 report of tests done by Pattinambakkam and the Adyar river, there was no data These chemicals are the remnants of when looking for heavy metals.
Meaningly Phosphate is the detergent of presence, the raw sewage of the presence of Ammonia hints. Environmentalists say that this toxic cocktail is created by the release of sewage into sea water that causes the foam. While the sewage of dumping happens all year, the problem of monsoons arriving is aggravated.
