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Mumbai’s Vast Garbage Dump Catches Fire Again, Covering City in Smog
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/03/22/mumbais-vast-garbage-dump-catches-fire-again-covering-city-in-smog/Mumbai’s largest dumping ground is up in flames for the second time in less than two months, engulfing India’s financial capital Tuesday morning in a thick layer of smoke.
The landfill at Deonar – an eastern suburb close to Mumbai’s center and adjacent to the city’s Bandra Kurla Complex business district – caught fire Sunday. For the past three days, the Mumbai fire brigade has deployed 100 firemen, 12 fire engines and eight tankers to bring the flames under control, said Chief Fire Officer P.S. Ranghdale.
It is unclear how many more days firemen will need to bring the situation under control at the 111-hectare landfill, where more than half of the city’s daily 10,000 tons of waste is dumped, Mr. Ranghdale said. The total volume of the waste piled up in the 8 decade-old dumping yard is close to 16 million tons, with hills of trash as tall as 8-floor buildings .
“Landfill fires are like bush fires, when you put them out in one place they spring up somewhere else,” said Mr. Ranghdale. “I hope we’ll be done in a couple of days, but it’s difficult to say.”
The landfill at Deonar – an eastern suburb close to Mumbai’s center and adjacent to the city’s Bandra Kurla Complex business district – caught fire Sunday. For the past three days, the Mumbai fire brigade has deployed 100 firemen, 12 fire engines and eight tankers to bring the flames under control, said Chief Fire Officer P.S. Ranghdale.
It is unclear how many more days firemen will need to bring the situation under control at the 111-hectare landfill, where more than half of the city’s daily 10,000 tons of waste is dumped, Mr. Ranghdale said. The total volume of the waste piled up in the 8 decade-old dumping yard is close to 16 million tons, with hills of trash as tall as 8-floor buildings .
“Landfill fires are like bush fires, when you put them out in one place they spring up somewhere else,” said Mr. Ranghdale. “I hope we’ll be done in a couple of days, but it’s difficult to say.”
Yeah. I can't see the skyscraper that is half a mile away from my building (which is just as well; it's a Trump property), and I and everyone I see has been coughing pretty constantly since Sunday. Oy.
