Greening the Garbage Hill Will Include Enviros Designed Leachate Treatment

The followiing is an extract from the Kuala Lumpur, "Straits Times Online", from last Sunday. Full article here.

One year ago, before experts put the Taman Beringin dumpsite on a demanding regiment of beauty treatments, it was the shame and bane of Kuala Lumpur.

For 30 years, Klang Valley happily emptied the bowels of its trash bins into the 15-hectare dumpsite. Eight million tonnes of rubbish later, it had become a monster.

It hulked ominously over the nearby Taman Nanyang and Taman Beringin, where people did their best to live with the unbearable stench. Black leachate oozed from the dumpsite’s every pore into the nearby rivers.

Flies, rats and stray dogs wandered about the piles of trash, spreading their disease-infested joy.

Now that the restoration is well under way, the Enviros Designed Leachate Treatment Plant will soon complete the greening, as follows:-

1.8km of pipes ring the perimeter of the hillock, channeling some 200m³ of leachate per day into two containment pools. The treatment plant, which will turn the leachate into clear, river-safe water, is scheduled to be ready by August.

This is the second Enviros Leachate Treatment Plant in Malaysia, and follows the larger plant at Bukit Tagar.