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MARGAO
The conventional method of capping fire with mud and water helped to reduce the Sonsodo smoke and fire to some extent on Saturday, with the district administration exuding confidence of completely capping the smoke emanating from the dump by Sunday evening.
A day-long operation, which began early Saturday morning and was continuing late evening, helped to cap a sizeable portion of the dump under fire and smoke with mud, reducing smoke and fire to a large extent. Around 250 truckloads of mud was dumped over the dump, starting from the Curtorim side, as heavy earth moving machinery made its way through the dump through makeshift way created by construction debris. The heavy earth moving machinery was deployed with the specific purpose to churn the waste before the portion was capped with mud.
The authorities now plan to tackle the smoke and fire around the Manovikas school side on Sunday morning, and have set a target to completely cap the smoke and fire by Sunday.
Salcete Mamlatdar Prataprao Gaonkar, who was closely monitoring the situation along with Additional Collector, Agnelo Fernandes and deputy Collector Raju Desai and fire and DMA officials, informed that the smoke has fire has been greatly reduced in a coordinated operation throughout Saturday. “The administration has dumped around 250 truckloads of mud at Sonsodo and has mobilized a couple of earth moving machinery to churn the waste and make way for the trucks to dump the mud”, he added.
To a question, the Salcete Mamlatdar informed that the administration will go all out to bring the fire and
