Effluent Treatment Plants in Vasai MIDC, Vasai-Virar.

Most units in Vasai MIDC produce little effluent, but the ones that do (metal finishing, drum washing, chemical formulation) tend to produce it in bursts. A plant sized for an average day copes poorly with a Friday clean-out. We measure the flow and the load across a working week, add holding capacity for the peaks, and fit a compact treatment train into whatever corner of the plot is free, with a logbook the operator can keep up without help.

Vasai MIDC is the town's planned industrial area, laid out east of the railway on the road inland from Vasai Road station. It is a working estate of modest plots rather than large campuses: engineering and fabrication shops, plastic moulders, packaging and printing units, and a number of small chemical and pharmaceutical formulators. Many units began as family businesses and are still run by the people who founded them or their children. Around the estate the land has filled with housing, shops and transport yards, so the boundary between industrial plot and neighbourhood is now mostly a compound wall. Some older plots have been sold, split or put to new uses.