Alexandria
municipal-city, the capital of Teleorman county is faced with a big
enviromental issue , caused by the disposal
of household waste. Unfortunately nowadays in our town the waste is disposed on
a so said garbage platform.
Short
history
The piece of land
on wich the platform is located belongs to the town hall. Since 1965 the refuse
has been colected from the streets and from the industrial factories and
throwed there.The garbage disposal was done without taking in consideration
special measures requesting environmental protection.The platform occupies a
total surface of 2 ha, the valley on which the storage began was fully covered
and was eventually filled to the capacity of 300000 cubic metres and the
estimated volume of stored garbage being estimated at cca
200000 cubic metres(2006)in a 40 years running time, the platform has never had
a schedule and has never seen organised:
-The disposal was controlled by the town’s
sanitation or economical agencies which were supported by the Town Hall. Apart
from that,the disposal was unchecked by economical agencies and individuals.
-The platform is not protected properly.
-The staff consists of 3 employees.
The trash is dumped
into the platform forming a pile. This action is usually done unorganised,
using a bulldozer. The waste product is
only ocasionally covered by inert material when there is a surplus of garbage.
The
general descrisption of the location
The municipal waste
storage platform owned by Alexandria’s Townhall
is being attributed the following services: gathering, transportation,
storing and tratment of the garbage, with form of public property(100%) and a 8
hours/day, 5 days/week schedule, and with a maximum of 300 working days/year it
is situated based on the main activities within the framework of the general,
economical and social administration.
The
platform designed for the storing of household refuse is situated in Teleorman
county, on the left bank of Vedea River and the East of Alexandria, just as it
results from his plan.
Storehouse’s
immediate vecinity:
-Nort-
agricultural fields;
-East-agricultural
fields;
-West-
Vedea River’s main river bed;
-South-
agricultural fields.
The
positioning of the platform that took place 40 years ago, in a valley which was
later filled with garbage, was never
preceded by a geological and geotechnical examination of the area. The site
occupies a valley orientated from NV to SE which is composed of chernozemic
soil over which were laid filling layers consisting of chernozemic soils, dusty
loams and other materials resulted from constructions and waste.
The topography of the location is very steady, unaffected by any
physical-geological phenomenons. It is known for its natural-anthropogenic
environment and it has a plane-horizontal surface, bounded to the west by the Vedea river.
The area where the platform is located has a meadow vegetation, with
high chances of anthropogenical transformation of the vegetal and animal world,
which consists of the agricultural crops and the steppe zone, strongly modified
by the anthropogenical development, the bioceonosis consisting of a reduced
number of species.
The fauna is especially represented by rodents, birds, insects and
mammals adapted to the anthropogenical conditions.
We specify the
existence of some neighborhoods whose activity may interfere with the analyzed
objective regarding the impact on the environment.
-
The water
treatment plant of Alexandria ( 1 km distance)
-
The
industrial area of Alexandria ( 3 km distance)
-
The
residential area of Alexandria (1,7 km
distance)
-
The rural
commune Poroschia (3,7 km distance)
-
The petrol
storage stations (2 km distance)
Consequences
on the environment
The main impact and
risk forms determined by the city and industrial garbage warehouses, in the
order they are perceived by the the population, so there are:
1. landscape modification and visual
disconfort.
2.air polution.
3.polution of the surface and underground
waters( air polution with unpleasant smell and suspensions led by the wind is
very obvious in the area of actual city warehouses).
4.modification of soil fertilities and biocenoses
compositions on the neighbouthood lands.
5.the participation to the generating of the
greenhouse effect and of the climate modifications , by garbage burning.
6.getting aut of the natural or economical
circuit of some lands.
7.the polution of the surface waters ( the
flowing down the warehouse hills, being situated in the neighbourhood of the
surface rivers contributes to the polution of them with organic substances and
suspensions.
8.the polution of the underground waters ( non
waterproofed warehouses of city garbage are often the source of underground
water infestations with nitrat and nitrit but also with other poluting
elements.
The composition of the garbage in
Alexandria
|
Hârtie,
carton
%
|
Sticlă
%
|
Metale
%
|
Plastice
%
|
Lemn
%
|
Materiale
organice
%
|
Altele
%
|
Total
|
|
4
|
3.3
|
2.3
|
6.7
|
2
|
73
|
8.7
|
100 %
|
The average composition of the garbage in
Alexandria.
Paper-4%, glass 3.3%, metals -2.3%, plastic
6.6%, wood-2%, organic materials-73%, others- 8.7%
It can be noticed from diagram and from the table that in the structure of the
garbage are dominating in percentage of 73%.
Solution
We consider that the solution for the garbage
warehouse will be done only by the responsible involment of the local
authorities , the firm apply of the law in this field and the development of
the project iniated by the Teleorman County Commitee ’’ Integrated sistem of
garbage management in the county of Teleorman’’, which has the integrated
environment agreement nr.9/31 .The project is financed within the ISPA programme of UE and it stipulates:
-The total value of
the investment is 21514000 euro.
-The achievement of
a county ecological warehouse having a total capacity of 2 850.000mc.
-Total surface
28ha.
-The amount of
garbage collected per day-291tons/day.
-The warehouse is
made of 4 cells occuring on a surface of 20ha.
-Compostation
station according to the warehouse has the capacity of 25 tons/day.
-Selection capacity
for the recycle garbage -25 tons/day.
-Functioning
length-30 years.
-The closing of the
97 existing warehouses .
-The achievement of
a transit platform for every village.
-Transport
capacities from vilages to the ecological warehouse.
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