Staff Reporter
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) Tuesday faced public disapproval at a hearing conducted by the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-Pak) for the development of a proposed permanent landfill site on scientific lines near Sangjani.
Terming the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report, presented by the CDA at the outset of public hearing, as obsolete and incomplete, the residents of Sangjani area exhorted the EPA to review the civic agency’s proposed site and relocate it to protect sector B-17 and adjacent areas’ dwellers from its hazardous impact.
Muhammad Faheem, a resident of sector B-17, said the proposed site was against the environmental laws and fell within 1,000 kilometer radius of the residential areas.
Sector B-17 and Faisal Hills were less than 500 meter away from the proposed site, he added.
“To us, it is discriminatory to dump garbage outside our houses and expose us to
diseases and unhygienic environment ,” he expressed his concern.
He said the area residents were relying on under ground water reservoirs and development of dumping site would “definitely”contaminate the facility.
There were universities, colleges, residential societies and even Ghandhara civilization in the area that must be kept into mind before taking this initiative, he stressed.
The sector B-17’s Muti-professional Cooperative Housing Society General Secretary Chaudhry Nadeem said the landfill in Sangjani would damage eco-system of the area which was improved after massive plantation.
