PTA worried about waste dumping in tanning district

In an urgent letter to the KMC Administrator Muhammad Husain Syed and Municipal Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan, the PTA Chairman (SZ - southern zone) Khurshid Ahmed said that the KMC staff had dumped all the waste from the storm water drains on the roads during the de-silting in Korangi Industrial Area (KIA). Khurshid said that the solid waste dumped on the roads was not only causing immense problems to the industrialists, visitors and commuters but also causing traffic hurdles. He said that in case of heavy rains all the de-silted solid waste would go back into the drains once again which may result in completely choking the drains.
He requested the KMC take urgent remedial steps and order staff to arrange immediate disposal of algae and silt dumped on the roadside. ‘Anticipating heavy rains in monsoon season, it has become imperative that tonnes of hazardous solid waste and rubbish lying in and around the Tannery Zone in Sector 7-A and along the 5000 Road must be removed at the very earliest,’ Khurshid said.
Considering a very heavy backlog of solid waste in the Sector 7-A, its partial removal carried out during the month of June did little to solve the problem. The expected heavy rains would now flood the entire Sector 7-A and other adjoining areas with the presently scattered heaps of hazardous solid waste and will paralyse the business and normal living here for weeks/months, he added.