Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified bore-dugwell along with public education on water related health effects.

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This new site #PW272 is in the village of Chougacha of Chakdah block in Nadia. The name of the donor is Shankar Biswas. Sand layer was found at the depth of 16 feet on May 10th 2013 and the arsenic level of the tubewell of Ashim biswas, the neighbor, was found to be 0.1 mg/L at the laboratory at Baerachapa.
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The previous site was cancelled due to nonavailability of sand within 30 feet.
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This site #PW272 is in the Goyalbari village under the jurisdiction of the Deuli panchayat of Chakda block in the district of North 24 Parganas.. The arsenic concentration of the private tubewell of Horekrisno Saddar was found to be 0.04 mg/L that was tested on 12 December 2012 with the VisuPAsS Visual Portable Arsenic testing field kit. The construction is supposed to start in mid February 2013.