Municipal Solid Waste Suitable Disposal Site Selection, Case Study, Wolkite Town, Ethiopia

Yenenesh Hailu, Terefe Hanchiso and Abreham Bereta
Additional contact information
Abreham Bereta: Department of Natural Resources Management, Wolkite University, Ethiopia

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2019, vol. 20, issue 4, 126-131

Abstract: Solid waste disposal area is a matter of public health concern. selection of an appropriate site would minimize environmental impact and forms a sound basis solid waste management, this study conducted with the aim of locating suitable land fill site for the case wolkite town, thus in order to Locating new solid waste landfill area multiple aspects, such as land use/land cover, soil and slope were used as factors. Moreover, proximity from surface water such as: rivers/streams, groundwater supply well point, road, public facility such as-schools, health centers, administrative offices, churches, mosques, other built up areas, and cultural sites were considered as landfill sitting constrains, data analysis were conducted through GIS software finally candidate land fill site were identified ,thus the municipality recommended to use the indicated land fill site rather than the former unsuitable land fill.

Keywords: earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/pdf/IJESNR.MS.ID.556044.pdf (application/pdf)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/IJESNR.MS.ID.556044.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:126-131

DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2019.20.556044

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources is currently edited by Sophia Mathis

More articles in International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources from Juniper Publishers Inc.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Thomas ().