Moving ahead with its plan to use abandoned quarries as dumping yards, seemingly an urgent solution to the threat of spreading diseases in city, the Urban Affairs Department has made it clear that 20 quarries in the Corporation limits have been identified for the purpose.
Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhy Ali said in the capital on Wednesday that three quarries would be initially put to use and that the proposal would reach implementation stage within two or three days.
The dumping will be done in the same model as was carried out at Veli, where garbage was land-filled in the railway land for construction of a platform. Though initially it had drawn flak, later the Corporation had ensured that a plastic sheet was first laid, segregated garbage dumped and put soil on the top before another layer was laid. The same pattern will be followed in quarry land-filling also.
The Minister said that the advantage of the sites identified was that they were far from residential areas, with no water bodies nearby. If the quarries are water-filled, it would be pumped out before the dumping would be carried out.
According to the district administration, rules demand the filling up of abandoned quarries, whether government-run or private. However, this is often not done leaving the abandoned quarries a death trap to students who go there for swimming, officials said.
The quarry landfill will be done for two months in a single quarry. The Minister said that the gasification plant at Chalai would be up and running in a few months.
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