EIA Studies of 3 Pre-Identified Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in ...

Rapid EIA Studies of 3 Pre-identified Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in NCT - Delhi:
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1.1 BACKGROUND
Chapter - 1
INTRODUCTION
The hazardous wastes generated from production processes and pollution control
facilities have to be managed scientifically as per the requirement of Hazardous
Waste (Management & Handling) Amendment Rules, 2000 notified by Ministry of
Environment & Forest, Govt. of India in January 2000. As per these rules, all the
hazardous wastes have to be managed scientifically from the source of generation
to final disposal and disposed of in secured landfill facility in environmentally safe
manner. The small and medium scale industries are not financially capable of
treatment & disposal of hazardous wastes individually. Therefore, all the hazardous
waste generated in Delhi are being disposed of indiscriminately into the land and
sometimes even on water bodies also. Therefore, an urgent need was felt to identify
suitable site(s) in Delhi whereon the secured landfill facility can be developed for the
disposal of hazardous wastes generated by the industrial units of Delhi in
environmentally safe manner. In order to identify suitable site(s) for the development
of facilities for scientific disposal of hazardous wastes, EIA studies have to be
carried out. In view of this, Department of Environment, Government of N.C.T-Delhi
has entrusted National Productivity Council to conduct Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) studies for the following pre-identified hazardous waste disposal
sites:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Site located at Bawana Industrial Relocation Complex,
Site located adjacent to Wazirpur CETP,
Site located near village Guman Hera
In addition, there is one more site (close to Bawana Industrial Area) identified by the
Department of Environment (DOE), Government of NCT-Delhi during 1996-97. The
EIA studies for the same had been conducted by NPC in 1997. As per the
requirement of DOE the findings of the EIA Studies (1997), have also been
incorporated in this report for evaluation of site.
1.2 OBJECTIVE
The main objective of the study is to conduct Rapid Environmental Impact
Assessment study for the three pre-identified potential sites from the technical and
environmental angle limited to one season only, in order to select a suitable site for
the development of a Hazardous waste disposal facility.
1.3 SCOPE OF WORK
In order to achieve the above objective, the following scope of work has been
envisaged:
Environment Division, National Productivity Council, New Delhi
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