The Beetham Land­fill re­opens to­day, af­ter a fire dis­rupt­ed its op­er­a­tions over the past three days.

In a state­ment, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (SWM­COL) said it had been work­ing close­ly with the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) fol­low­ing a fire at the land­fill ear­li­er this week.

The com­pa­ny con­firmed that the TTFS was called in on Mon­day to con­tain the blaze, and while a few smoul­der­ing ar­eas re­main, smoke lev­els had dras­ti­cal­ly re­duced.

The EMA yes­ter­day told Guardian Me­dia that it con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor air qual­i­ty around the land­fill.

Its Air Unit con­duct­ed field in­spec­tions yes­ter­day and re­port­ed no vis­i­ble smoke, al­though a slight odour was de­tect­ed when the wind shift­ed.

The EMA said mon­i­tor­ing will con­tin­ue un­til con­di­tions re­turn to nor­mal and air qual­i­ty reach­es ac­cept­able lev­els.

SWM­COL ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to the TTFS for its sup­port in con­tain­ing the fire and thanked the pub­lic for its pa­tience and co­op­er­a­tion dur­ing the dis­rup­tion.

The com­pa­ny said it re­mains com­mit­ted to the safe op­er­a­tion of the fa­cil­i­ty and apol­o­gised for any in­con­ve­nience caused.

Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um closed its Sea Lots of­fices yes­ter­day be­cause of the fire.