Delhi: ‘Ghazipur landfill’s height brought down by 40 feet’

NEW DELHI: East Delhi Municipal Corporation claimed to have reduced the height of Ghazipur landfill by 40 feet through regular processing of heritage waste in the past 10 months.
EDMC commissioner Dilraj Kaur said that they had installed eight trommel machines to process the waste at the landfill and were aggressively working on biomining. “This has helped us reduce the height of the landfill by 40 feet.We are aiming to install four more trommel machines by the end of July,” she said.
The civic agency apprised the lieutenant governor of the development on Thursday.
Kaur said that work was being carried out aggressively now as they were successful in making arrangements for full utilisation of the by-products. “Earlier we were facing problem in utilisation of soil (less than 6mm in size) extracted from the waste. But after tying up with NTPC Limited, for supplying soil to fill up Badarpur Thermal Power Station’s (BTPS) fly-ash pond before developing it into a green area, our speed has increased,”’ she said.
Ghazipur landfill made headlines in September 2017 after two people lost their lives when a portion of garbage came crashing down. Later in 2018, it was found that the height of the city’s oldest site has reached 65 metre which is eight metres less than that of Qutub Minar’s height.
Attempts were made to identify new dumping sites but no solution was found. Then in July 2019, National Green Tribunal (NGT) gave direction to all the three municipal corporations to engage trommel machines as per Indore model, for treatment of heritage waste.
The east corporation installed these machines one by one and was able to process 1.3 lakh metric tonne of heritage waste lying at Ghazipur landfill.