Leachate

I also continue to scratch my head over what appears to be DUMP’s biggest hypocrisy — its ongoing fight and appeals to stop our efforts, as part of our permit, to put in treatment systems at the landfill to remove PFAS from leachate.

In Montpelier — one of two primary places now taking the leachate — city councilors say the plant will stop accepting the waste by July 1 this year unless it is treated ahead of time for PFAS.

Inspectors also found the compost wasn't covered during the rainy season, allowing leachate to escape and enter the watercourse.

It states there has been no effective remediation and leachate (contaminated liquid) from the site had flown down through a farmer’s field into Foxhill Brook nearby and then through Helsby to the Mersey.

The Bucksport Mill landfill – which is now under a closure order from the DEP – holds the 45.5 million gallons of leachate it produces each year in a pond.

The report states: “As some leachate had overtopped the side wall and affected the adjacent land, you will be scored a category 3 for this non compliance.

Garbage creates things like leachate and methane gas which have to be treated, so reducing the amount of garbage in landfills will reduce the amount of toxins in the environment.

If the leachate is considered unsafe for Newport, why would it be okay for the rest of our state’s towns and lakes?

In February 2018, the city’s Municipal Council adopted a project to establish a facility for processing leachate which generates a toxic smell.

Paper mills in the South and their leachate grounds are hotbeds of dioxin waste contamination.

The group wrote to Environment Southland in August this year asking what the leachate was and how much of it was entering the water each year.

New regulations require the collection of leachate from stored feeds, Geiser said.

While the TCLP process grinds the glass into fine particles in order to expose them to weak acids to test for leachate, intact CRT glass does not leache (The lead is vitrified, contained inside the glass itself, similar to leaded glass crystalware).