Ahead of the review meeting, the company tasked with demolition of the Supertech twin towers submitted a debris management plan to the Noida Authority, explaining how it will handle 55,000 tonnes of waste that is created as the buildings are brought down.
Authority officials said on Friday that they have received the report, which will be forwarded to the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB). The plan will be discussed in detail during the review meeting by the Noida Authority on Saturday, an official said. Praveen Kumar, regional officer, UPPCB Noida, said, “We are yet to receive the report. We will review it once we get it and give our suggestions.”
Waste management is expected to be a mammoth task after the demolition of the nearly 100-meter-high towers in Sector 93A of Noida. Earlier, the Noida Authority had told Edifice Engineering – the Mumbai-based firm that is responsible for the August 21 demolition – that the construction and debris (C&D) plant in Sector 80 did not have the capacity to treat thousands of tonnes of waste.
It had told the company that the plant processes 300 tonnes of C&D waste in a day, and that Edifice will need to dump part of it in landfills or empty areas. Edifice had identified small land parcels in the city, but was then asked to find larger areas. According to officials, around 4,000 tonnes of iron will also be retrieved from the debris and sold to recover a major part of the demolition cost.
Separately, Edifice and the Noida Authority have yet to finalize other dust control measures, including covering the green areas in two societies – Emerald Court, where the twin towers are located, and neighboring ATS Greens Village. A team of officials from the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), which has to give a final nod for the planned demolition, is camping in the city for Saturday’s review meeting. Currently, they are reviewing the responses by Edifice on queries related to the blast design, use of explosives and ground vibration among other issues.
