Pollution Incident Again Highlights High Level of Landfill Site Management Needed to Avoid Leachate Pollution

That leachate management requires the constant vigilance of landfill site staff so that breaches don't occur is no doubt exemplified by the following:-

From ENDS June we hear that Glasgow City Council was fined £2000 at Glasgow Sherriff Court on 5 June after contaminated liquid leaked from their Summerston landfill site in the north of Glasgow and entered the River Kelvin.

The local press reported that the liquid was the by-product of decomposing waste buried in the landfill", (ie leachate!).

This liquid is supposed to be collected, contained and treated on site, so that there is no damage to the environment," SEPA said.

The River Kelvin is a high enough quality river these days to be a well known fishing river.

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