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Despite a clean chit by the Central Pollution Control Board, environmental concerns over the proposed engineered landfill site at Ghonda Gujran and Sonia Vihar on the Yamuna floodplain in east Delhi have not abated. The proposed landfills have triggered protest from activists and experts who claim their presence along the floodplain would constrict the flow of the river, risk floods and also impact the river ecology and ecosystem. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation though, maintains that it will not be developing traditional landfills and has plans for preventing contamination.