Haphazard dumping of solid waste causing environmental hazards in Sahiwal

SAHIWAL: For the past two decades, the metropolitan corporation has been dumping the city’s solid waste near Jhal Road overhead bridge on the banks of the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC). Sahiwal lacks a dedicated solid waste dumping site and Jhal Road area was selected randomly without any legal procedures.

Reports indicate that a total of 192 kanals and 105 kanals of land on both banks of the LBDC, the canal bed as well as Lahore-Khanewal railway track are used to dump 140 tonne solid waste daily.