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    A SOURCE BOOK ON ENVIRONMENT OF KOLKATA

    by
    Chinmoy Chakrabarti

    A publication of
    Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project

    KOLKATA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION


    2013

    Copyright Kolkata Municipal Corporation


    Published by
    Kolkata Municipal Corporation
    5 S N Banerjee Road, Kolkata 700 013

    Table of Contents
    PART I INTRODUCTION

    CHAPTER 1. BACKGROUND

    CHAPTER 2. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES OF KMC

    25

    PART II. TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ASPECTS

    59

    CHAPTER 3. LAND ENVIRONMENT

    59

    CHAPTER 4. SURFACE WATER


    CHAPTER 5. GROUND WATER

    79
    96

    CHAPTER 6. EAST KOLKATA WETLANDS

    112

    PART III. ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS

    127

    CHAPTER 7. TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY

    127

    CHAPTER 8. WILD LIFE

    136

    CHAPTER 9. AQUATIC ECOLOGY

    151

    PART IV. ATMOSPHERE

    163

    CHAPTER 10. METEOROLOGY

    163

    CHAPTER 11. AMBIENT AIR QUALITY

    177

    CHAPTER 12. NOISE

    190

    PART V. HAZARDS, VULNERABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

    195

    CHAPTER 13. HAZARDS AND VULNERABILITY

    195

    CHAPTER 14. CLIMATE CHANGE AND VULNERABILITY

    202

    There is hardly any published/unpublished concise but authentic account of the state of
    environment of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area. The most notable effort in this direction
    was made by the Department of Environment, Government of West Bengal in 1996 under the project
    titled Calcutta Environmental Strategy and Action Plan (CEMSAP). Later in 2002, Kolkata
    Environmental Improvement Project (KEIP) of KMC provided a brief but useful account of the
    environment of Kolkata as part of the Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) report of the Project
    which was subsequently elaborated and updated in 2006 and 2010. During implementation of KEIP,
    extensive environmental monitoring was carried out over the subproject areas of KEIP and a wealth of
    environmental monitoring data accumulated. Most of these are now available as part of six-monthly
    reports on implementation of the Environment Management Plan (EMP) of the Project. Those data
    along with other published information have now been collated in a single volume and published as a
    source book on environment of Kolkata for use by development agencies and by the research
    workers and hence this publication. The bulk of this present publication therefore represents data
    based on about a decade of environmental measurements and investigations by KEIP, Central
    Pollution Control Board (CPCB), West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB), government
    departments, academic & research institutes and professional consulting groups. The publication is a
    work of reference for the student or research scientist or practicing engineer. Facts have been
    presented as fully as space permits before the intended readers leading to development of an
    account about the extant environment of Kolkata.

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