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Environmental Baseline Study of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsite, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

Table 1.1:
Generation of Solid Waste from Different Sector (Rawat and Daverey 2017)

Sector Waste generated

Total solid waste generated 30.0 MT/d

Total collection of waste generated 18.0 MT/d

MSW generation rate 0.278 kg/c/d

Domestic waste generation 1.0–3.0 kg/house/d

Waste generated by shops and commercial 1.0 T/d
establishments

Waste generated by hotels, slaughter houses 2.0 T/d
and fish markets

TATA CONSULTING ENGINEERS Ltd, Mumbai has awarded the Legacy Waste
Characterization work to ECON Laboratory & Consultancy to know the qualitative and quantitative

analysis of waste at different region of Uttarakhand. ECON team has been completed proposed project

at given location to known the various parameters of waste.

Present report summarizes the results of the Physico-chemical parameters of Legacy Solid

Waste, Ground Water Quality, Leachate, Ambient Noise Monitoring, and Ambient Air Quality

Monitoring.

2.0 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

The overall objectives for the waste management assessment are summarized below:

 Collection of solid waste
 Characterization of the collected Solid Waste from given dumpsites.
 Physico-chemical analysis of Solid Waste
 Leachate Analysis, Ambient Air Quality Monitoring, Ambient Noise Monitoring and Ground
Water Quality assessment.

ECON Laboratory & Consultancy, Dehradun
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