Monitoring Expanse Near Lakhodair Landfill and Mehmood Booti Dump Sites of Lahore, Paksitan

Abstract

Solid waste management in any large urban city like Lahore requires special disposal measures. In this regard, Lakhodair landfill and Mehmood booti dump sites collect and handle major bulk of all the solid waste coming from ten towns of Lahore, with the city’s waste generation rate of being 0.84kg/capita per day. Spatial expanse of both the sites was calculated in Arc GIS 10.3 system. The findings clearly showed that the extent of both these dump sites had increased during 2006-2016 due to an enormous rise in solid waste generation. During 2006, the area of Mehmood Booti dump site and Lakhodair Landfill site was only 15 hectares and 17 hectares respectively. By 2016, this area had increased to 32 hectares and 52 hectares respectively. The mapping of these two sites can help in future researches based on investigating the disease patterns among people residing around these sites and by determining methane emissions in the study area.