Land or Soil Pollution is the contamination of the soil that prevents the natural growth and balance in the land, and the City of Port of Spain suffers from large amounts of land pollution.
In Port of Spain the most affected area of this form of pollution is the sea lots area and the Beetham Landfill. These areas are most affected because of the heavy industrialisation in Sea Lots. Additionally the Sea Lots area of Port of Spain is also home to a large Slum area which has poor water quality due to the high amounts of industrial waste entering the ground water supply through the soil. This is why the residents of the area are always causing some sort of disturbance and uproar because they are victims to the industrial pollution and are at risk of contracting diseases. The residents of Sea Lots also use what ever they can find to build up the land they are on because the land is unstable since it is mainly reclaimed land adding to the high amounts of pollution in the area.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/field/image/sea%20lots_0.png
Large amounts of waste deposits in the Beetham Landfill is also another cause to the high amounts of Land Pollution in the area. This is because the Beetham Landfill is the only area where collected garbage can be dumped therefore large amounts of garbage from Trinidad is dumped in the landfill and not managed efficiently. The land pollution throughout the city streets is a major factor in the flooding covered in the last post.
http://lyndersaydigital.com/ll/no/02_files/Beetham%20Landfill%20069.jpg
References
Accessed April 8, 2015. www.eposdctt/ddefualt.asp?=61
"Types of Pollution." LoveToKnow. Accessed April 9, 2015.
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Types_of_Pollution.
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