The Hindu 10.04.2013
‘Finish capping waste by May 15’
Coimbatore Corporation sets deadline for the private waste management firm.
May 15 is the deadline the Coimbatore Corporation has
set for the Coimbatore Integrated Waste Management Company Private
Limited to complete the capping exercise. Commissioner G. Latha told
The Hindu
that within the date, the company, the contractor engaged in
transporting and processing waste at the Vellalore dump yard, would have
to cover the waste with earth. The waste to be covered was the one that
the Corporation had accumulated but not processed over the years.
She
set the deadline at a meeting the civic body officials had with the
representatives of the company at the Corporation on Tuesday.
This
was necessary for two reasons – one, for the company to show that it
was working towards capping the waste, as promised, and, two, to prevent
any outbreak of fire.
The Corporation’s dump yard in
Vellalore is notorious for fire accidents. In the recent past, the yard
had witnessed serious fire outbreaks, some of which extended up to two
days. The residents of the localities in the yard’s vicinity were driven
out of their homes by smoke.
The very objective of setting the deadline is to prevent recurrence of such accidents, she emphasised.
The
second outcome of the meeting was the Corporation asking the company to
efficiently manage its fleet in that it had to quickly transport the
waste from the transit station to Vellalore. It had come to the
Commissioner’s notice that there had been occasions where it took the
company more than two or three hours to exit transit stations to carry
the waste to Vellalore. This was unacceptable because it should not take
more than 15 minutes for the lorries to exit. And also because the
delay impacted the Corporation’s primary and secondary collection.
Unless
the lorries carried the waste, the Corporation’s lorries would not be
able to empty the waste and return for the next round of collection.
This had impacted the garbage collection on the street.
Ms.
Latha also said that once the company adhered to the directions issued,
it would be asked to immediately complete the scientific land filling
exercise.
