Fomento begins capping Sonsodo site with tarpaulin
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, MAY 27
Fomento has finally commenced work on covering the Sonsodo waste dumping site with tarpaulin.
Blue coloured tarpaulin sheets have made their presence felt at the dumping site on Thursday, as part of the exercise to cover the site to prevent leachate from flowing into the adjoining storm water drains.
Fomento has roped in around 30 workers to carry out the work of capping the site with tarpaulin and the entire work is expected to be completed in all respects within next 7-8 days.
A representative of the company told Herald at the site that the work would be completed before the onset of monsoons. “The company has employed a gang of 30 labourers to work at the site. The site will be fully covered with tarpaulin”, he said.
Work on the drainage at the site has also begun, even as heavy earth moving machinery are working round the clock to tackle the situation at the site.
A Fomento official said the company has procured enough tarpaulin that could cover around 10,000 square meter of Sonsodo used for dumping waste.
Incidentally, this is the second successive year that Sonsodo is being capped with tarpaulin. Last year, the Margao Civic body had covered the dumping site with tarpaulin upon orders from the High Court at a whopping cost of Rs 18 lakh.
This year, however, work on covering the site with tarpaulin, is being taken up by Fomento as the dumping site has been handed over to its possession ahead of the signing of the Concession agreement between the company and the Margao Civic body.
Meanwhile, the ongoing work has pushed mounds of waste at the site to the far corner of the dumping site, making room for the setting up a waste treatment plant.
As per company sources, actual work on the construction work of the treatment plant will begin at Sonsodo from the first week of October and the work is expected to be complete in all respects by March 2011.
