Tiruchi Corporation working on evolving a response system
The Tiruchirapalli City Corporation will soon build
watch towers and install surveillance cameras and fire hydrants at its
Ariyamangalam garbage dump to prevent fire.
These
were some of the important decisions arrived at a consultative meeting
between senior officers of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Fire and
Rescue Services and the corporation here on Saturday.
The
meeting was convened in the wake of the series of recent fires at the
garbage dump, which has triggered a public outcry. A few days ago, a
group of residents of Ariyamangalam area observed a fast demanding the
shifting of the dump as it was becoming a health hazard.
“We discussed steps that need to be taken to prevent fires and also the
site development work to be taken at the dump yard,” Corporation
Commissioner V.P. Thandapani told The Hindu after the meeting.
The
corporation, he said, had begun the work on construction of three watch
towers at the dump. Efforts were on to put in place a system and
trained manpower for fighting fires at the initial stages and for
preventing entry of unauthorised persons into the dump as the civic body
suspected sabotage could be a possible cause for the recent fires.
“We
have decided to raise the height of the compound wall around the
garbage dump. Garbage has been cleared for about 35 feet from the
compound wall so that vehicles can go around the dump. We have decided
to lay a blacktopped road around the compound wall for free movement of
vehicles. Besides, the accumulated garbage will be segregated into
smaller mounds with moving space in-between to facilitate free movement
of vehicles in case of fires,” Mr. Thandapani said.
Borewells would be sunk in different parts of the over 40-acre dump yard
and fire hydrants installed. The Fire and Rescue Service would train a
team of corporation workers in basic fire fighting so that minor fires
could be put out by them. A water tanker would be kept as a standby at
the disposal of the staff at the dump. The Fire and Rescue Service had
suggested the construction of a sump with a capacity of one lakh litres.
This was under consideration.
Meanwhile, a
proposal for bio-capping of the accumulated garbage had been firmed up
but the source of funding was yet to be identified. Steps had been taken
to gradually reduce dumping of mixed garbage at the dump as the civic
body was gradually going for source segregation of degradable and
non-degradable solid wastes.
The meeting discussed
the proposal for establishing a second bio-fertilizer manufacturing unit
in the city at Panchapur. The one at Ariyamangalam would shortly step
up its handling capacity from 100 to 300 tonnes a day, Mr. Thandapani
added.
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