Decks cleared for permanent dumping yard for Ongole

Burning of garbage on the margins of the Chennai-Kolkata will be a thing of the past with the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APCB) giving its nod for locating a waste disposal facility at Guthikondavaripalem on the city outskirts.

Biodegradable waste

A permanent solution to solid waste disposal had remained elusive for decades in the city which generated about 120 tonnes of waste, half of the waste being bio-degradable, as people of different colonies went to court against the sites selected by the civic body from time to time for locating a dumping yard.

Elated over the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Boards green signal to the civic bodys proposal, Telugu Desam Party MLA from Ongole D. Janardhana Rao said, From now we will move all garbage generated in the city to the 4.50 acre site near Koppolu for scientific disposal. A beautiful park will be developed at Uracheruvu, he added.

This is a good beginning to achieve Swachh Ongole, Municipal Commissioner S. Venkatakrishna added.

Cleaning of the roads including Trunk road and Kurnool road in the city with a population of over 2.7 lakh, apart from a floating population of another 60,000 a day would be done during night from next month, the MLA said.

Pollution

Allaying the fears of Gothikondavaripalem people over air and water pollution, Mr. Venkatakrishna said that from now garbage, now dumped by the highway and also at Uracheruvu, would be disposed of in a scientific manner by putting a geo-membrane sheet to avoid pollution.

Land identified

We have identified another 14 acres of land elsewhere for safe disposal of solid waste keeping in view future needs, the MLA said.

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Decks cleared for permanent dumping yard for Ongole