DRAFT REPORT Nagpur Environmental Status Report 2017-18 21° 8' 47.8788'' N 79° 5' 19.8960'' E National Environmental Engineering Research Institute CSIR-NEERI, Nehru Marg Nagpur, 440020 Environmental Status Report Nagpur 2017-18 Contents 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Purpose of the ESR .......................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Nagpur City ...................................................................................................................... 2 2. Climate and Climate Change .............................................................................................. 5 3. Land Use & Land Cover ..................................................................................................... 7 3.1 Remote Sensing Analysis ................................................................................................. 7 3.2 False Colour Composite (FCC) ........................................................................................ 9 3.3 Supervised Classification ............................................................................................... 11 3.4 Change Detection Analysis ............................................................................................ 14 4. Water Environment ........................................................................................................... 18 4.1 Water Supply .................................................................................................................. 18 4.1.1 Old Gorewada Source ................................................................................................. 19 4.1.2 Kanhan Water Source.................................................................................................. 19 4.1.3 Pench Source ............................................................................................................... 19 4.1.4 Kanhan and Pench River Water Quality ..................................................................... 20 4.1.5 Present Annual Water Reservation & Actual drawl ................................................... 22 4.1.6 Present Water Distribution Systems ............................................................................ 23 4.2 Wastewater Generation and Treatment .......................................................................... 25 4.2.1 Sewage Treatment Plan under Execution.................................................................... 27 4.2.1.1 Wastewater Recycle and Re-use .............................................................................. 27 4.2.1.2 Capacity enhancement existing WWTP and new WWTPs ..................................... 27 4.3 Surface Water ................................................................................................................. 28 4.3.1 Nag River, Pili River and Pora River Water Quality .................................................. 28 4.3.2 Initiative taken by Nagpur Municipal Corporation ..................................................... 36 4.4 Lake Water Quality ........................................................................................................ 37 4.5 Ground Water Quality .................................................................................................... 39 5. Municipal Solid Waste ....................................................................................................... 57 5.1 Solid Waste Generation .................................................................................................. 57 5.2 Solid Waste Management............................................................................................... 57 5.2.1 Existing Status of Solid Waste Management in Nagpur City ..................................... 57 5.2.2 Category of Solid Waste Generation ........................................................................... 57 i CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur Environmental Status Report Nagpur 2017-18 5.2.3 Municipal Solid Waste ................................................................................................ 58 5.2.4 Operation of MSW Management System in NMC Area ............................................ 58 5.2.5 Waste Generation in Nagpur ....................................................................................... 58 5.2.6 Physical Composition .................................................................................................. 59 5.2.7 Chemical Composition ................................................................................................ 70 5.2.8 Waste Segregation ....................................................................................................... 73 5.2.9 Waste Collection ......................................................................................................... 74 5.2.10 Transportation of MSW ............................................................................................ 75 5.2.11 Waste Processing and Disposal in Nagpur City ........................................................ 76 5.3 Bio-medical Waste (BMW) and its Management .......................................................... 77 5.4 Electronic Waste Management in Nagpur City.............................................................. 78 5.5 Waste Reduction Model (WARM) for Nagpur City ...................................................... 79 5.5.1 Alternative Waste Management Scenario ................................................................... 81 6. Ambient Air Quality Status of Nagpur ............................................................................ 85 6.1 Air Quality Status of the Region .................................................................................... 85 6.1.1 Air Quality Monitoring Details ................................................................................... 85 6.2 Air Quality Status ........................................................................................................... 89 6.3 Meteorology of the Study Region .................................................................................. 96 7. Noise Monitoring of Nagpur ............................................................................................. 97 7.1 Methodology .................................................................................................................. 97 7.1.1 Study Area and Noise Monitoring Locations .............................................................. 97 1.1.2 Monitoring ................................................................................................................... 97 1.1.3 Analysis of Noise levels .............................................................................................. 97 1.1.4 Noise Mapping ............................................................................................................ 98 1.2 Noise Monitoring ........................................................................................................... 98 7.3 Noise levels .................................................................................................................. 103 7.4 Noise Map .................................................................................................................... 109 8. Biodiversity ....................................................................................................................... 110 8.1 Biological Diversity of Nagpur NMC .......................................................................... 110 8.2 Gardens of Nagpur ....................................................................................................... 111 8.3 Brief Note on impact of the urban activities on the birds around Nagpur ................... 115 9. Happiness Index & Stress Levels.................................................................................... 119 9.1 Status of Psychological and Mental Health in Nagpur: Changing Scenario ................ 119 ii CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur Environmental Status Report Nagpur 2017-18 10. Economic Evaluation of Ecosystem Damage ............................................................... 120 10.1 Case Study 1: Economic Assessment of Damage Related to (GHGs) Emissions ..... 120 10.2 Case Study 2: Economic Assessment of Damage Related to Air Pollution............... 122 11. Linkage of Environmental Status Report (ESRs) to SDG ......................................... 126 12. NMC Initiatives .............................................................................................................. 127 12.1 Initiatives .................................................................................................................... 127 12.2 Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited ................... 127 13. Citizen Corner ................................................................................................................ 129 14. Recommendations .......................................................................................................... 130 14.1 Water Environment .................................................................................................... 130 14.2 Lakes .........................................................................................................................