20120414 India Garbage in dump yard catches fire
India Apr 14 2012 “Other”
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Garbage in dump yard catches fire
Updated:2012-04-14-03:03
COIMBATORE: A part of garbage heaped on the city corporation’s Vellalore dumping yard, city’s biggest dumping yard, caught fire on Friday morning.
Residents say there have been several instances of such fire earlier. “Outbreaks of fire at the dumping yard is a common fare in summer months and the corporation officials do not pay much heed to the grievances of the local residents,” said KS Mohan, Kurichi-Vellalore pollution prevention action committee.
Meanwhile, the city corporation has prepared plans to scientifically cap the garbage heaps in the yard. Senior corporation officials had claimed that the main intention to take up the project was to ensure that there were no freak outbreak of fire so that the garbage heaps in the yard do not become an environment polluting agent.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be about Rs 12.5 crore. Earlier the yard did not have proper security personnel deployed inside and there were many instances when ragpickers used to set the garbage mounds on fire to separate out metallic items to be sold as junk from the debris. The project is estimated to be completed within three months.
Web Source:THE TIMES OF INDIA