Monitoring Expanse Near Lakhodair Landfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore, Paksitan

Abstract

Solid waste management in any large urban city like Lahore requires special disposal measures. In thisregard, Lakhodair landfill and Mehmood booti dump sites collect and handle major bulk of all the solid waste comingfrom ten towns of Lahore, with the city’s waste generation rate of being 0.84kg/capita per day. Spatial expanse of boththe sites was calculated in Arc GIS 10.3 system. The findings clearly showed that the extent of both these dump siteshad increased during 2006-2016 due to an enormous rise in solid waste generation. During 2006, the area of MehmoodBooti dump site and Lakhodair Landfill site was only 15 hectares and 17 hectares respectively. By 2016, this area hadincreased to 32 hectares and 52 hectares respectively. The mapping of these two sites can help in future researchesbased on investigating the disease patterns among people residing around these sites and by determining methaneemissions in the study area.

Temporal Variation in Leachate Composition of A Newly Constructed Landfill Site in Lahore in Context To Human and Environmental Risks

“…The Lakhodair land ll is considered to be an old land ll site because of stable leachate pH i.e., 8.3-9.2 (throughout the year) and its age is > 10 years. The pH of mature leachate is mostly stable with slight variation in seasons, however, the pH of the leachate is increasing with decreasing/ decomposition of oil and fatty materials (Khalil et al 2020, Renou et al 2008). The concentration of sulfate was 16-10400 mg/L and sul des was 0.3-21 mg/L, which was both comparably higher than the NEQs i.e., 1000, and 01 mg/L, respectively (Table 1).…”