Environmental Audits in Taloja MIDC, Taloja.

In Taloja the audit most often asked for is a plot audit before a unit is bought, leased or closed. Decades of chemical work may have left solvent in the soil, sludge in a pit or residue in a drain. A buyer takes that on with the plot, and a seller leaving the estate must close properly with MPCB. We read the plot's past from consents, returns and people who worked there, go over the site on foot, and sample the spots that history marks out.

Taloja MIDC is the industrial estate itself: a large grid of plots laid out by MIDC below the hills east of Kharghar, holding chemical, pharmaceutical, food, plastics, steel and engineering units. Some are large continuous-process plants; many are mid-sized batch units running reactors, dryers and boilers. The estate's effluent flows by pipe to one collective treatment works, and its hazardous waste is trucked to a shared disposal site close by. The Kasadi river flows through and alongside it. Housing nodes and villages have grown up on its edges, so a unit that once had fields beyond its wall may now face apartment windows.