Landfill site selection is one of the most important tasks for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management planners. Rajshahi is considered to be one of the most growing cities with enormous potentialities to physical and environmental development. The city has taken over air pollution, and it should now shift their focus on preparing to face the consequences of rapid urban growth. With completely unorganized solid waste management even after the absence of industries and mega industries, the city surely has a chance of collapsing in the time of any large development movement. To encounter the potential risk, we are trying to identify the suitable place to dispose of Metropolitan Solid Waste in Rajshahi Metropolitan area with the combination of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) considering Environmental, Technical and Social factors. In order to select suitable site for landfill several important criteria, such as geology/hydro geology, land use, slope, aspect and distance from settlements, surface water body, roads, railway, streams, and protected areas were chosen according to standards and regulations.
Do you think there are any other effective elements that can be added to this list?
Distance from city (urban area and specific infrastructures)
Distance from sensitive environnement (Forest, River, wetlands...)
Distance from agricultural area
Study of wind direction (to avoid highly demographic area)
...... etc
There is many other factor depending of the area of interest, and for the local environnemental laws.
I advice that you create a Form (asking about those criteria) submitted to many local actors, to justifie the choice in your fututr
In addition, you may consider
Distance to Educational institute
Distance to health care facilities
Distance to community facilities like market (hat bazar etc.)
Furthermore I would strongly recommend to take lessons from current dumping sites (either sanitary or unsanitary) and consider soil characteristics as well. Since all most all areas may encounter leachate specially during rainy season, so you may need to know your proposed areas lithology and accordingly you could propose sustainable solutions. You may have a glimpse of the following article:
Article GIS and Multi Criteria Decision Method Based Approach of Ide...
I think accessibility to potential land fill site is also an important issue
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