Environment Management & Mitigation Plan in Naigaon, Vasai-Virar.

Any management plan for a Naigaon site has to deal with construction on wet ground: dewatering, runoff carrying silt towards the creek, stockpiles on soft soil, and truck movements on narrow village roads. Water pumped out of excavations has to go somewhere other than the nearest mangrove. We write a plan that site managers can follow, with clear responsibilities, simple measures such as silt traps, settling tanks and covered stockpiles, and monitoring that shows whether they work.

Naigaon is the southern gateway to Vasai-Virar, the first station after the railway crosses the Vasai creek from Bhayandar. Much of its land is low and flat, and until recently a great deal of it was salt pans, paddy and marsh along the creek, with mangroves fringing the water. Over the last two decades large residential layouts have grown up on this land, especially on the eastern side, alongside older villages and some industrial and warehouse sheds. The creek, the tides and the monsoon still shape the ground here more than anywhere else in the town.