Environment and Interdisciplinary Development

Identifying Areas Prone to Landfill and Waste Depots in Kamyaran County by Implementing Prohibited Areas

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Hamid Ganjaeian 1
Mina Shahjamali 1
Aezam Ebrahimi 2
Morteza Akbarian 3

1 Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Science in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of literature and human sciences, University of Shahid Chamran, Ahvaz, Iran

3 Department of Geomorphology, Faculty of Earth sciences, University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/envj.2025.500751.1458
Abstract
Introduction: It is very important for officials and planners to identify the landfill or waste depot. Different areas have different potentials for the creation of landfill sites or waste depot under the influence of hydroeconomic status, geology and geomorphology. One of the areas that face many restrictions is Kamyaran city in Kurdistan province. The city of Kamyaran has developed carpet and hydrophilic resources and is highly sensitive to contamination, so the location of landfill sites or waste depot in this city should be highly sensitive. Due to the high sensitivity of the city of Kamyaran to pollution and also given that this study has not been conducted in this study, the study based on natural and human parameters, identifies the talented landfill or waste depot in the city of Kamyaran.
Materials and Methods: In this study based on library studies, expert opinions and region status, 12 parameters of precipitation status, cover-of-the-gauge density, fault distance, lithology, distance from urban areas, distance from rural, river distance, distance from river The main road, altitude, slope, distance from geocytes and distance from cultural sites are selected to identify talented landfill or waste depot in Kamyaran city. Secondly, the parameters have been given weight to the parameters using the weighting method. In the third step, the information layers into the IDRISI software and ultimately using the weight of the weight -based linear composition (WLC) are combined and the final map of the landfill or waste depot is prepared in the city of Kamyaran. Fourth, the layer of forbidden areas is applied to the zone map. The layer of forbidden areas is based on library studies, expert opinions and the status of the area. After preparing a layer of forbidden areas, the forbidden area layer was applied to the final map of the WLC model, and finally, the final map of the landfill or waste depot was prepared in the city of Kamyaran.
Results: In this study, 12 natural and human parameters were used to identify the landfill areas in Kamyaran. According to the results, only small parts of the middle areas of Kamyaran are prone to landfill or waste depot. In fact, due to the density of gests and cultural sites, fault line density, lithology type, as well as hydrology status, only a few parts of Kamyaran city are suitable for landfill or waste depot. Due to the high sensitivity of landfill or waste depot, this sector has been identified on the basis of library studies, expert opinions as well as the status of the area, forbidden landfills in Kamyaran city.
Discussion: According to the results, about 633 kilometers of Kamyaran city, which is part of urban areas, rivers and dams, due to their high vulnerability potential, part of the forbidden areas of Kamyaran city to create a landfill site. Are. The sum of the results of the parameters evaluation, the implementation of the WLC model, and the implementation of the banned areas have shown that only 148 km 2 of Kamyaran city (7.2 % of the total area of ​​the county), mainly in the middle of Kamyaran city due to being away from Forbidden areas, being away from geographies and cultural sites, and being away from fault lines, are prone to landfill. Based on the results of this study, it can be said that Kamyaran is highly environmentally sensitive, so in various environmental planning, including landfill planning, it should be paid to environmental parameters, and especially parameters. Naturally this city will pay special attention.

Keywords

Landfill
Pollution
WLC
Kamyaran County

Subjects

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Volume 10, Issue 87
Spring 2025
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