Smelly bin centre fluids on KK road
Published on: Monday, March 09, 2020
By: Sidney Skinner
CITY Hall workers will step up efforts to clean the road around a bin centre in one part of the State Capital.A spokesman for the agency said it was also considering the possibility of having the surface of the road modified to prevent the run-off from collecting on the stretch.
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A City Hall spokesman said the gradient for the stretch needed to be rebuilt.
“This gradient problem has been brought about by the incidence of settlement over the years,” he said.
“There may also be a problem with the existing leachate outlet for the bin centre.”
He said the relevant departments inside the agency would have to deliberate over how best to address these irregularities.
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Leachate is the foul smelling liquid produced when garbage is compressed.
The spokesman was responding to a complaint from a Kepayan driver about the stench coming from the pools of leachate on Jalan Segama along which the bin centre was located.
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The individual, who works at an office in this part of the city, bemoaned the nuisance created by the nasty odour of these fluids.
On top of this, he said deep potholes had formed in parts of the road because of the leachate.
He provided Hotline with the location of the bin centre in question. This information was forwarded to City Hall.
The spokesman said its street-cleaning team had been instructed to wash away any traces of leachate left behind by its garbage compactors.
“These staff have been asked to hose down the area outside the bin centre on a daily basis.”
He said City Hall would monitor the performance of its workers to ensure that road users did not continue to be further inconvenienced by the leachate.
The spokesman also urged the operators of eateries in Segama to drain any fluids from their kitchen waste to minimise the nuisance created by the stench when their rubbish was cleared.
He said proprietors should use thick plastic bags to bag this waste.
“They should also ensure that the garbage is placed inside the bin and not piled up outside the receptacle,” he said.
“This will facilitate the efforts of our workers to remove this garbage swiftly, without creating a mess.”
ALEX of Kepayan suspected that the nuisance might be due to infrequency with which the area around the bin centre was hosed down.
“When it is cleaned, the force of the water used to clean the stretch might have pushed small bits of rubbish into the outlet between the structure and the road,” he said.
“The foul liquid might be ponding on the road because the outlet is blocked.”
Alex said he had related his misgivings to City Hall “several months ago” but, so far, the situation had yet to improve.
“At one stage, some of the potholes were patched up but this was a half-hearted effort as only the smaller ones were dealt with while the bigger ones remain exposed till today.”
Another spokesman refuted the ratepayer’s claims about the months-long delay in dealing with the problem, saying that the agency only received a complaint about the potholes in January.
He said an inspection of the road was made shortly after this.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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