TEAM HERALD
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CANACONA: Apparently caught in an uncanny situation after scrupulously dumped garbage at Dumane Garbage Treatment Plant caught fire, which continues to burn, Canacona Municipal Council (CMC) is now accused of haphazardly transporting tonnes of garbage and burying it across KRC tracks at Gulem.
“The garbage is shifted in tipper trucks and buried at Gulem in a bid to check the fire and stop further burning at Dumane Garbage Treatment plant. The garbage continues to burn though on a smaller scale but is polluting the area badly,” said a municipal source.
Incidentally, the area where CMC is shifting the recklessly dumped garbage at the treatment plant at Dumane, is the same area, where CMC used to previously dump its day-to-day garbage collection, which is an abandoned open field lying across the KRC tracks at Gulem.
According to CMC sources, three tipper trucks are engaged to lift the wet garbage from the garbage treatment plant. However, residents have complained of transporting it without cover/protection and releasing foul smell.
“Motorists or pedestrians find the released smell intolerable and unhygienic,” complained a resident at Devabhag, the area through which the garbage is transported from Dumane to Gulem.
When contacted, CMC Chief Officer Pradeep Naik said efforts are being made to stop fire pollution and free the garbage treatment plant from the fire danger by temporarily shifting the garbage elsewhere.
“Considering the enormity of untreated garbage lying at Dumane plant, most of the affected garbage will be cleared by Monday,” informed Naik.
Naik informed that presently, the day-to-day collected garbage is not dumped at Dumane Treatment plant and is being alternately handled.
