Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control Board will hold public hearing on the proposed Centralized Municipal Solid Waste management Facilities at Cacora village in Quepem taluka on November 14, as part of its environmental impact assessment study.
The govt has proposed to establish CMSWMF at an existing municipal solid waste dumpsite to comply with the orders of the High Court vide the suo moto writ petition 2/2007 and the requirements as per MSW Rules 2000. Government has already acquired land and marked as industrial area.
The main objective of the establishment of CMSWMF is to process and dispose-off the waste lying haphazardly at the existing MSW dumpsites site and also to cater to the needs of present, as well as future waste generated in the South Goa district.
“As per the information collected from various records and reports available with government, the existing MSW dumpsite is severely contaminated due to unscientific disposal, thereby posing serious risk to air, soil, surface water, and groundwater resources in and around the existing site,” the silent features of the project, reads.
“The environmental public hearing is conducted for ascertaining the concerns of the affected persons who can express their views or seek information or clarifications from the project proponent,” GSPCB member secretary Levinson Martins said.
The project is been facing server opposition from villagers on the environmental grounds. The Board has asked the affected parties to submit their views, suggestions, comments and objections in writing to the Board before the scheduled hearing.
The project is implemented through Department of Science, Technology & Environment (DST&E) and Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (GSIDC). DST&E is the nodal department, whereas GSIDC is the executing agency for the project. The proposed CMSWMF will be of 100 tons per day (TPD) / 36,500 tons/annum (TPA) capacity based on Recycle & Sorting Line, Segregation, Bio-methanation and In-vessel Composting at Cacora.
The proposed CMSWMF is expected to minimize the negative environmental impacts caused due to indiscriminate dumping of un-segregated MSW in the past 20 years.
