Trash it like Hassan, giant garbage pile disappears

 Hassan: It was the mother of garbage dumps. Spread over eight acres, it had accumulated rubbish over 25 years. The dreadful stink and the eyesore it presented with pigs, dogs and scavenging birds swarming around it did nothing to wake up the civic authorities to the health risk it posed to the people of the city. But now finally Hassan city is rid of its mountain of rubbish.

 The garbage pile was so high that it took three months and Rs 90 lakh for  the City Municipal Council (CMC), to dispose of it scientifically and rid the city of the filth once and for all.

“We used capping and digging to get rid of the rubbish,” says CMC president, Anil Kumar Around one- and- a- half acre of land was dug for upto 18-ft to bury the garbage, he explains.

While he doesn’t even try to estimate the rubbish that was piled up , Mr  Kumar points out that Hassan city generates about 60 tonnes of garbage a day, giving you a rough idea of the humungous task accomplished.      

Since the clearing of the Goruru Road dumpyard, the CMC has begun scientific segregation of waste in Agile village. And now the eight acres that were home to mounds of rubbish will host cattle fairs and exhibitions. Work on fencing it has begun at a cost of Rs 1 crore.