Service: Lindi Water At The Jalupang Karawang TPA Contains Organic Materials

Illustration - Handling waste in TPA. (ANTARA/Umarul Faruq/dok)

KARAWANG - The Environmental Service (DLH) of Karawang Regency, West Java (West Java), said that the content of lindi water or liquid waste originating from piles of garbage at the Final Disposal Site (TPA) of Jalungang contains organic materials.

Head of Cleanliness, Waste Management and Waste DLH Karawang, Agus Mustaqi said that his party had conducted a water quality study at the Jalupang waste TPA.

According to the study, the content of lindi water in the Jalungang TPA contains organic materials. Therefore, the Karawang DLH will optimize the Lindi Water Processing Installation (IPL) by carrying out a number of repairs in the lindi water pool.

This IPL serves to process lindi water originating from rainwater that seeps into piles of garbage before being dumped into the environment.

"We do not yet have a special IPL building. Meanwhile, we have just made a pipeline to the IPLT (Installation of Tinja Waste Disposal) which is also in the Jalungang TPA area," he said in Karawang, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, January 15.

The lindi water will later be processed through a lindi water pond which will then flow through pipes. Later the LIND water flowing into the environment is treated water.

"Untuk optimalisasi ini kami akan berkoordinasi dengan Dinas Perumahan Rakyat dan Kawasan Permukiman, karena saat ini kewenangan IPLT ada di PRKP (Dinas Perumahan Rakyat dan Kawasan Pemukiman) Karawang," katanya.

According to him, optimizing the water lindi management is part of a series of efforts to improve waste processing at the Jalupang TPA.

The Karawang Regency Government (Pemkab) will increase waste management at the Jalungang TPA from open dumping to control landfill.

Head of DLH Karawang Iwan Ridwan said that until now the management of waste at the Jalupang TPA is still carried out by open dumping.

Open dumping is a simple way to dispose of waste. So garbage is just thrown away in an open place, without being covered or covered with soil.

He said that now the pile of garbage in the Jalupang TPA is 15 meters high and it is still within the tolerance limit. In contrast to what happened in other regional TPAs where the pile of garbage has reached 20 meters.

Even so, the change in the waste management system at the Jalupang TPA, he said, does not have to wait for piles of garbage to exceed the tolerance limit. Therefore, his party is currently preparing the handling of waste at the TPA using a control landfill.

Control landfill is a waste disposal system that is a combination of open dumping techniques and landfill sanitary techniques. By using landfill controls, the garbage that accumulates in the TPA is compacted and flattened using heavy equipment. Then coated with soil every five days or once a week.

This is done, among others, to reduce odors, reduce fly breeding, reduce the release of methane gas, increase efficiency in land utilization, and be useful for improving the stability of the TPA surface.