LG minister inaugurates KP’s first engineered sanitary landfill cell
PESHAWAR
Provincial Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Faisal Amin Gandapur has said work of permanent rehabilitation of the flood victims has also been started and resources are being used to assist and provide relief to flood affectees.
He was talking to flood affected people during his visit to flood hit areas in Dera Ismail Khan. He was accompanied by district administration authorities and rescue workers.
Faisal Amin said that assessment committees have been formed to ensure e compensation of flood damages. He also urged nation and overseas Pakistanis to donate generously in KP Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund to help out flood victims.
He said the provincial government, local administration and concerned authorities are working round the clock to deal with this calamity and provide adequate aid and relief to affected families.
He further said that measures are being taken by concerned departments to ensure maintenance and repair of the canal system. He assured that government would leave no stone unturned to help flood affected people and mitigate their sufferings.
Meanwhile, Minister Local Government Elections and Rural Development Department Faisal Amin Gandapur on Tuesday inaugurated Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar’s sanitary landfill cell (SLC).
The company will now be able to dump waste in a environmental-friendly manner. Chief Executive Officer WSSP Dr Hassan Nasir, General Manager Projects Dr Mehboob Alam, Zonal Manager Engr Anwarul Haq and other staff of WSSP were also present on the occasion. The minister also planted a sapling under the ongoing monsoon tree plantation drive at the site.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister lauded WSSP for constructing the landfill cell from its own funds and congratulated the company’s management for timely completion of the project. The minister said such projects would help improve environment and provide job opportunities in future. The company becomes the first-ever in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to have constructed and owns a landfill cell.
The landfill site was constructed at a cost of Rs22.4 million. It is 130 meters long and 60 meters wide and its surface is covered with a geo-membrane that prevent seepage of wastewater in ground and protect groundwater from contamination.
Dr Alam briefed the minister and said that the cell was based on a technique for the final disposal of solid waste in a pit that causes no nuisance or danger to public health and safety. “It doesn’t cause any harm to the environment during or after operation,” he said.
Based on engineering principles, waste is confined at such a small an area as possible, Dr Alam said, adding that the waste would be covered with layers of soil and compacted to reduce its volume.
It will help minimizing risk of adverse impacts on land, water and air environments associated with waste disposal. “This engineering intervention will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that can be utilized for energy production or economic dividends can be generated by consequent selling of the captured gases,” said Dr Hassan Nasir while explaining operational procedure of the cell.
