Margao: Fire broke out in the city after about six days Sonsodo waste treatment plant, Margo Municipal Council (mmcChief Officer Agnello Fernandes, in a circular issued on Thursday, directed hotels, restaurants and commercial establishments to generate wet waste to apply for consent to operate from the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB).
Fernandes said the GSPCB’s approval is necessary as “it may take three months to normalize the Sonsodo effluent treatment plant”.
With the bioremediation of the heritage dump at Sonsodo, which was closed a year ago, and the MMC failing to take any steps to resume operations at the wastewater treatment plant, sources said the civic body’s latest circular was only It is an indicator towards its failure. Get its action together.
“This circular is not proper. Why should business establishments have to bear the brunt of MMC’s sluggishness and negligence? Said Savio Coutinho of the Shadow Council for Margao.
In July 2021, the GSPCB made a dire prediction of the Sonsoddo waste treatment plant, advising the MMC to take measures to deal with the waste management issues.
In a presentation to MMC councilors on 3 July, environmental engineer Sanjeev Joglekar had said that setting up a 50TPD (per day) capacity biomethanation plant at Sonsodo was the ultimate solution to Margao’s solid waste management crisis, with the task of handling the impending wet. Outsourcing the waste to an experienced private agency would help as a short-term remedy. Even after eight months there has been no change. Worse yet, with not enough space to dump the incoming daily waste, it finds its way onto the heritage dump.
Though the trucks of the municipality pick up the garbage on a daily basis, the insufficient space inside the Sonsoddo waste yard makes the situation worse as the trucks are forced to dump the waste at the old dump.
In the presentation, the GSPCB had pointed out that with the current pace and methodology of wet waste treatment in Sonsado, it could only lead to the creation of another mountain of residual waste, thereby eliminating all efforts to clean up the heritage dump. can be done.
Fernandes said the GSPCB’s approval is necessary as “it may take three months to normalize the Sonsodo effluent treatment plant”.
With the bioremediation of the heritage dump at Sonsodo, which was closed a year ago, and the MMC failing to take any steps to resume operations at the wastewater treatment plant, sources said the civic body’s latest circular was only It is an indicator towards its failure. Get its action together.
“This circular is not proper. Why should business establishments have to bear the brunt of MMC’s sluggishness and negligence? Said Savio Coutinho of the Shadow Council for Margao.
In July 2021, the GSPCB made a dire prediction of the Sonsoddo waste treatment plant, advising the MMC to take measures to deal with the waste management issues.
In a presentation to MMC councilors on 3 July, environmental engineer Sanjeev Joglekar had said that setting up a 50TPD (per day) capacity biomethanation plant at Sonsodo was the ultimate solution to Margao’s solid waste management crisis, with the task of handling the impending wet. Outsourcing the waste to an experienced private agency would help as a short-term remedy. Even after eight months there has been no change. Worse yet, with not enough space to dump the incoming daily waste, it finds its way onto the heritage dump.
Though the trucks of the municipality pick up the garbage on a daily basis, the insufficient space inside the Sonsoddo waste yard makes the situation worse as the trucks are forced to dump the waste at the old dump.
In the presentation, the GSPCB had pointed out that with the current pace and methodology of wet waste treatment in Sonsado, it could only lead to the creation of another mountain of residual waste, thereby eliminating all efforts to clean up the heritage dump. can be done.