Abstract

DAHWA, Diana; MAZHINDU, Aldridge  and  CHIRENJE, Kudzai. Estimation and Web-GIS geovisualisation of a suitable solid waste disposal site: Case study of New City, Harare. Town reg. plan. (Online) [online]. 2023, vol.82, pp.110-123. ISSN 2415-0495.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/trp.v82i.6090.

With the ever-increasing human population, there is a need to develop new urban settlements for human habitation. For these new settlements, it is imperative to optimally site different land-use zones, including solid waste disposal sites. The aim of this article is to determine suitable sites for locating a landfill in a new developed city in Zimbabwe around Mt. Hampden, named the New City. The New City will have various residential, commercial, and industrial areas. This entails the need for a proper site selection of a landfill to reduce the negative social and environmental effects such as contamination of water bodies and proliferation of diseases such as malaria. GIS and remote sensing were the major methods used in mapping the suitable areas. Multi-criteria evaluation and weighted overlay analysis methods were used in the landfill site selection process. Factors used for landfill site selection were rivers, settlements, roads, protected areas, and soils. A suitability map was generated, showing five potential sites that are suitable for landfill siting in the New City. Moderately suitable areas cover approximately 8%. A further 73% of the total land area in the study area is highly unsuitable for siting a landfill. A real-time Web-GIS monitoring interface was developed to monitor land use on the selected area, because the New City is a new area under development. Using a Web-GIS interface makes data easily accessible to environment planners, ecologists, spatial land planners, and other decision makers.

Keywords : Web-GIS; Analytic Hierarchy Process; GIS; municipal solid waste; land fill; land fill sites; waste disposal; Zimbabwe.

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