bandhwari landfill site

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MCG commissioner Pradeep Dahiya said the situation is under control, even as personnel stationed at Bandhwari admitted that conditions remain precarious

The scope of work includes door-to-door collection of segregated waste and its transportation to the bandhwari landfill site, which serves as the processing location for both clusters

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A fire broke out at the bandhwari landfill site due to methane combustion or sparking caused by stones. Three fire tenders from Udyog Vihar and Bhim Nagar fire stations took over two hours to douse the flames. Excess methane gas in the landfill and sparking caused by stones were identified as potential causes. The villagers expressed their concerns about the pollution caused by such fire incidents and the ongoing issues with leachate flow and health problems. An environmental activist suspected that the fire was deliberately set ahead of an upcoming NGT hearing.

The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) had initiated the selection of firms to treat 10 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Two tenders were floated, each for 5 lakh MT, aimed to process 2,000 MT daily. The deadline was before the National Green Tribunal’s Sept 3 hearing.

A fire broke out at bandhwari landfill site in Gurugram on Sunday.

With MCG failing to clear legacy waste from bandhwari landfill site within the prescribed timeline, the lack of takers for refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and space constraints due to a faulty design plan have emerged as the major challenges for the civic body. Around 2,000 metric tonnes of waste is dumped daily at Bandhwari.

The MCG is planning to empanel agencies for the transportation of refuse derived fuel (RDF), inert —concrete and sand — and fine material produced after bio-mining the legacy waste at bandhwari landfill site.

The MCG has decided to install 13 CCTV cameras at the bandhwari landfill site. The move, according to officials, has been taken to monitor processing of legacy waste and keep a check on waste management at the site.

With only 10 days left for the contract renewal of 12 trommels deployed at the bandhwari landfill site, MCG is in a fix on how the processing of legacy waste would happen post-March 24.