Trip To Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill By Helicopter

Tuesday, 25-04-2006

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usBird view of Bukit Tagar landfill site. This is the site where rubbish and waste from Klang Valley being burried by the earth.
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usA closer look at the Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill from the helicopter
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usDeputy Minister Sothinathan (3rd from left), YB Dr James Dawos (MP for Mambong, 4th from left) and me were being briefed by personnels from KUB-Berjaya-Environ at the landfill site.
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usLeachate treatment plant, it is same facility used by Indah Water Consortium
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usWater from Leachate treatment plant will flow to this “Seed Bed”, the long roots grass will absorb nutrients of the leachate and thus cleanse the water.

Yesterday, I have an interesting trip to Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill together with Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Sothinathan and YB Dr James Dawos (MP for Mambong). We travelled there by helicopter. We were accompanied by the Director General of DOE Datuk Rosnani

It was my first time I travelled with helicopter. We took the helicopter at the Old Airport at Sungai Besi. You know, we always passed by the old airport at Sungai Besi, but we never know how to get there. So, last night, I purposely ask my member to drive me to locate the entrance of the old airport and we found it along the road to the Kwang Tong cemetary (more…)