Perungudi dumpyard gets pilot project to treat leachate
The Hindu
The IIT Madras’ Department of Civil Engineering has installed the system to detoxify leachate from one channel which collects and drains it to a nearby waterbody.
The Greater Chennai Corporation has installed a prototype leachate treatment system at the Perungudi dumpyard. Leachate is either rainwater falling on and draining via garbage or moisture from the garbage, and it contains salts, heavy metals, chemicals from plastic, rubber, pharmaceutical products and volatile organic compounds. The IIT Madras’ Department of Civil Engineering has installed the system to detoxify leachate from one channel which collects and drains it to a nearby waterbody. “This is an on-field trial of a treatment system developed at IIT-M. We have already tried it out in a laboratory environment successfully. The idea is to scale up the technology after three months with support from the Department of Science and Technology and the Greater Chennai Corporation,” said Indumathi Nambi, a professor working to combat pollution.
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