Corp Building Wall At Garbage Yard
The Coimbatore Corporation has drawn up a project to build a wall at its garbage yard at Vellalore to prevent people from entering the yard and setting fire to garbage dumps.While the wall is to be built at Rs. 25 lakh, the Corporation also plans to lay two roads at Rs. 50 lakh to enable garbage-laden lorries to go right into the yard. One of the charges levelled by residents of more than 15 colonies around the yard is that garbage is not dumped at the space earmarked for it.
Instead, Corporation workers offload waste wherever it is convenient for them, they say. Facing flak from the public for more than five years for dumping more than 500 tonnes of waste at the yard every day, the Corporation now hopes that the wall and the roads will solve at least half the problem. The proposals were cleared by the Corporation Council at its recent meeting.While the residents have alleged that the Corporation workers set fire to waste as an easy method of disposal, the civic body has been stoutly denying this and blaming the problem on rag pickers.
The Corporation says that the situation now is far better than what it was a year ago. The spraying of effective microbe (EM) solution has tackled the fly menace and the Corporation’s solid waste management scheme will be implemented soon to remove all problems in garbage disposal.“There has not been any big change,” says secretary of the Kurichi-Vellalore Pollution Prevention Action Committee K.S. Mohan. The residents of the colonies around the yard had formed the committee when trouble broke out a few years ago in the form of smoke from the burning garbage dumps.
