Mayor's reply to the goings on at Kayu Madang
Published on: Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: City Hall is unable to appoint a new company to manage the Kayu Madang Sanitary Landfill in Telipok pending the disposal of the case in the High Court. Mayor Datuk Abidin Madingkir (pic) said until the disposal of the case that has been rescheduled for trial from July 29 to 31, 2015, City Hall is unable to appoint any new company.Responding to a statement in the Daily Express on Monday, the Mayor however denied that the companies that had made presentations to the City Hall were from overseas.
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According to him, all the companies are in fact locals who are trying to gain support or investors from overseas to oversee certain areas in their projects.Madingkir said the Federal Government through the State Government had allocated RM30 million to upgrade the existing sanitary landfill in 2012. Thanking the Federal Government for the funding, he said the major scope of works included repairing and upgrading of the access and internal roads, construction of a Mechanised Leachate Treatment Plant, the closing of the existing dumpsite and preparations of a new phase. The Mayor explained that the extension of the landfill, coupled with the operation of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) plant and the Composting Plant, as well as various programmes conducted by City Hall such as recycling, reducing and reusing activities, would prolong the life span of the said landfill.
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Without the upgrading and extension, the sanitary landfill, which is equipped with weigh-bridge system, leachate collection and treatment system with a total project site of 115 acres, with a disposal area of around 32 acres and a total volume of 2.5 million cubic metres, is unable to cope with the demand of increasing domestic waste.The landfill, currently used by the City Hall, nearby district councils of Penampang, Tuaran, Kota Belud and the general public is receiving some 700 to 800 tonnes of disposals daily.
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Meanwhile, according to City Hall Senior Engineer, Jack Lo, who is in-charge of the landfill, the presence of scavengers at the Kayu Manding Sanitary Landfill was now under control since a company was appointed to perform specific duties, including managing the recyclable and retrievable items at the landfill.As in other cities and when there is opportunity to make a living, he said it is impossible to totally prevent the scavengers, including residents, from the nearby villages entering the site.According to him, the size of the area itself is too big, thus providing them with many points of entries and only one enforcement personnel is stationed at the landfill.Compared to previously, however, Lo said the numbers of scavengers have been greatly reduced and troubles caused by them are the responsibility of the appointed company.The scavengers, he explained, would normally start coming to the landfill as early as 4am and they would normally leave the landfill by 7 or 8 at night.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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