A week after the Ghazipur landfill tragedy, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, on Thursday sought to take action on the various landfills in the Capital. Speaking to the relevant authorities, the L-G asked them to initiate greening of mounds at Bhalswa and Okhla, to reduce the garbage hills.
Baijal has also directed the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to start segregating and utilising of garbage from the Ghazipur landfill in its road construction project by mid-November.
Also on Thursday, the LG held a meeting with experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, Delhi’s Urban Development (UD) minister Satyendar Jain, municipal commissioners and other departments of the Delhi government to look into feasible and long-term solutions to clear the existing landfills.
“The concerned departments must start the greening of mounds at Bhalaswa and Okhla after grading their slopes in an engineered manner,” said Baijal.
In his presentation during the meeting at the LG’s House, IIT-Delhi Professor Manoj Datta explained that the main causes of instability of landfill sites were rain, earthquake, leachate, gas, and steep slopes.
The flattening of slopes, strengthening the base area and removing leachate and gas could be some of the measures for improving stability, said Datta.
“Fires can be eliminated by collecting and flaring inflammable methane. Regarding aesthetics of landfill sites, slopes can be re-graded and green vegetative growth could be engineered. Normal time-frames to implement such measures, which are also quite expensive, range from nine months to 18 months, depending upon site conditions and clearances,” Datta explained.
The LG has called for the full utilisation of the existing capacity and addition to the installed capacity of the waste-to-energy plants at Ghazipur, Okhla and Narela-Bawana. He discussed the solutions applicable to all the three garbage mounds on a case-by-case basis.
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