MARGAO
Bioremediation of the Sonsodo legacy dump has resumed after the monsoon break, with the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) setting a target of completing the mammoth exercise before the coming monsoons.
While work is expected to go full steam at Sonsodo in the coming days with the deployment of additional machines, GWMC has set upon the task of making available land admeasuring 3000 square meters around the abandoned Komex waste treatment plant to facilitate the Margao municipality to take up any fresh waste treatment project at the site.
In this respect, an abandoned tank, believed to have been part of the Komex plant, which lay buried since the project was abandoned two decades ago, was unearthed during the bioremediation exercise by the contractor.
GWMC Managing Director, Levinson Martins, said the Corporation aims at completing bioremediation of the Sonsodo legacy dump before the coming monsoons. He, however, said that the delay in the transportation of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) waste generated out of the bioremediation process and the problems faced by the cement manufacturing factories in Karnataka may upset the plan to clear the Sonsodo dump of the RDF.
“We have told the contractor to deployed additional machinery at Sonsodo to ensure that the dump is cleared of the legacy waste before monsoons. Even if we achieve the objective, I feel the problem of transportation of the RDF to the Karnataka-based cement factories will slow down the process of clearing the waste from the site,” he said.
Martins, however, said that efforts are on to clear the RDF generated at Sonsodo on priority, pointing out that RDF and plastic waste generated across the state are also required to be transported to the Karnataka-based cement factories.
“These factories not only receive the RDF from Goa, but from other states as well. We have received information that the cement factories are facing the problem of storage of RDF coming from various states,” he said.
