Environment Assessment Of Industrial Landfill Site In Tamil Nadu

Industrialization poses a great threat to human kind by the way of generating deleterious products followed through rapid urbanization and population growth activities. Different methods of waste management emit a large number of substances, most in small quantities and at extremely low levels. Land filling was the one of the method used for the discarding of industrial waste in Chennai, and the majority of the landfill sites are open dumping areas, which causes severe environmental and social threats. As a result, the hazardous waste generation has tremendously increased. Therefore an environmental assessment was the need of the hour. A field based study was taken up on five land fill sites namely the Madarpakkam, Sathyavedu village, Menallur village, Nemalur village, Pondavkkam village that were within the 10km buffer zone of the landfill site Gummidipoondi in Tamil Nadu, India and the sites were assessed for environmental parameters on air such as SO2, NOx and SPM, ground water and soil on physical, chemical and associated factors. Overall results has showed that air, soil and water quality were within the prescribed limits of the International standards that could be due to buffer distance of 10km from the core region. A transect survey of environmental parameters would have been better to identify environmental impacts of disposal methods could be considered by decision makers in future to suggest the most environmentally and economic method to the policy planners.