A Survey on locating of solid waste inhume in GIS by linear programing (case study: khorasan razavi state area)

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Heydar Lofti ¹ , Yousef Ali Ziari ² , Babak Sadeghi ³

1 - ندارد
2 - ندارد
3 - ندارد

Received: 2014-11-29 Accepted : 2014-11-29 Published : 2010-07-23

Keywords: solid waste landfill, criteria, Geographical information syste, Environment,

Abstract :

Solid waste is the natural outcome of human societies. Nowadays in Iran, the treat of mismanagmentof solid wastes are the main problems, in addition to the various other environment issues such as air and water pollutions. According to the problems of solid waste disposal management in the county of Mashad. It is needed to select a site for land filling or in huming in a suitable place. For site selection, application of geographical information system(GIS) software is the scientific method. Factors and criteria such as topography ,slope,soil type, geology, hydrologhy, distance from surface water, ground water table, population centers and access road, sources of solid waste production and others are the base data for laying the maps are used in the GIS. This paper based on several maps 2 suitable and 2 very suitable sites were been found. All of the selected lands were acceptable for land filling. The municipality of mashad can choose each of the sites with respect to the cost of the financial badget.