Saturday, 10 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Gearing up for the treatment of the legacy waste in the Govindnagar area of Rishikesh, the Municipal Corporation of Rishikesh (MCR) has started to make arrangements to install the pieces of machinery for the treatment of the accumulated waste at the dumping site through the biomining technique. The legacy waste which has mounted up in the area for the last 40 years is spread across the four-hectare land at the dumping site in the Govind Nagar area. The dumping site is filled with about 2.71 lakh cubic metres of legacy waste that mainly include glass, rubber, fibre, plastic and leachate. According to the officials, the biomining process is the best way to treat the legacy waste as the segregation and proper disposal of mixed garbage lying around for decades is not easy with any other technique. According to the tax and revenue superintendent of the corporation, Ramesh Rawat, the corporation has hired a company under the public-private partnership (PPP) for the legacy waste disposal project. Rawat said that the company has started the process of installing the required types of machinery to carry out the biomining process near the dumping site. According to him, the company is currently preparing a proper base for the installation of machinery by clearing out a part of the land near the dumping site. About 10,000 square feet area is being prepared to make a stable base for machine installation which would take about three weeks to finish, informed Rawat. He added that the installation process would have started sooner for waste treatment but locating a place near the dumping site where the noise or smell generated during the biomining process would not disturb the nearby local residents took some time.
Rawat also stated that Rishikesh is the first city in Uttarakhand which would use the biomining technique for the proper disposal of the legacy waste. Since the waste is being accumulated at the site for over four decades, the biomining process would take at least six months to treat the legacy waste, informed Rawat. He stressed that once the process of preparing base and machine installation would be completed in three to four weeks, the legacy waste treatment through biomining would be commenced from the second week of the next month.
