The Hindu                     06.04.2013

Modern garbage transfer station at Kukatpally

Having successfully tested the functioning of the modern garbage
transfer station at Imlibun in the last couple of months for better
efficiency and relatively odour free, the GHMC is proceeding with the
construction of the second one at Kukatpally.

It will be the
largest transfer station spread over four acres and is estimated to cost
up to Rs.4.5 crore. The municipal corporation’s public, private partner
(PPP) for the solid waste management project Ramky Enviro Engineers is
taking up the construction work, GHMC Additional Commissioner (Health
& Sanitation) L. Vandan Kumar has said.

Transit halts

Transfer
stations are transit halts for the short haul garbage laden trucks to
dump garbage collected from different parts before they are segregated
and mounted onto long haul trucks to be taken to dumping site at
Jawaharnagar. So far at the transfer stations the garbage is out in the
open leading to littering, and subsequent protests in the neighbourhoods
because of the stink.

Not much garbage compacting too was being
done including at the other existing ones at Lower Tank Bund and
Yousufguda. Now, all that is set to change with the Imlibun modern
transfer station. Since most work is automated, there is not much
littering either inside or within the vicinity and there is less of foul
odour emanating. The work too is done faster, pointed out Mr. Kumar.
Imlibun transfer station spread over 2,000 square yards came into focus
before it was modernised when citizens living nearby and using the park
had approached the High Court seeking a change of location.

While
the Kukatpally transfer station is to be developed into a model station
with the same kind of facilities albeit on a bigger scale, the
Yousufguda transfer station modernisation is slated in an area of 1.2
acres and the Lower Tank Bund one over an area of two acres. Two other
sites, one at Nagole and another at Kapra too have been identified as
the suburbs do not have sufficient number of such stations.

It will be the largest transfer station spread over four acres and is estimated to cost Rs. 4.5 crore.