Overview
- The High Court, in Monday’s hearing, ordered daily monitoring from 1 am to 6 am and real-time measurement of gases at the Kanjurmarg landfill to address residents’ odour complaints.
- Judges directed officials to deliver a methane containment plan within two weeks with input from NEERI, IIT Bombay and VJTI, and to install a public display board of gas levels within a month.
- The BMC told the court the site processes nearly 90% of the city’s waste and said closure or relocation is not feasible now because the operating contract runs until 2036.
- Following a two-hour site inspection on Saturday, the bench noted a strong foul smell and pressed for a scientific explanation for the nightly odour spike between 1 am and 6 am.
- The BMC has started on-ground steps such as pollution-monitoring vans and an odour log, with methane readings to begin once a repaired analyzer returns to service, and the court will review data on May 7.