Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has extended the deadline to complete the six-stage capping of the Jawaharnagar dump yard to May. It was to be completed in February.
The task of capping the 14 million tonnes of garbage, accumulated since over a decade, with seven different layers began in March this year. The corporation in order to vent poisonous gases in the garbage mound has dug 35 borewells out of the total 167 required.
The corporation is also gearing up for covering the land fill with high density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane liners for further protection.
The corporation has completed covering 95 per cent of the garbage mound with soil. This will be followed by layers of geosynthetic clay and a HDPE liner. Next comes a geocomposite layer to drain rainwater and a geotextile layer. There will be one more soil layer of about 1.5 feet thickness and finally the vegetative layer.
With financial hurdles cleared, and the government extending support, the GHMC took up the Rs 144-crore project with the private firm sharing half of the cost.
