Thursday, May 17, 2007

Leachate Safari - Places Filling Rapidly, So Book Now!

The Enviros Leachate Safari tour of operating UK leachate treatment plants, which we publicised in this blog in April, has reached the half full stage.

Scroll down in the blog and read about it now if you missed it!

More information, our leaflet and registration details, are available on our blog at http://www.leachatesafari.com , alternatively email Christy Robinson at: Christy.Robinson@enviros.com .

We are delighted to receive so many bookings this early, for the 27 and 28 June event. Unfortunately, we will only be able to take one coach full to these sites, so it is very much first come first served.

We have bookings from leachate plant operators and managers, present, and future for whom we are building new plants, and we also have Environment Agency regulatory staff joining us. There is likely to be at least one research student joining us as well.

So far, our visitors will be arriving from England, Ireland, and Sweden.

If you have been considering joining us don't delay! Act Now! Book now, before it is too late!

Greening the Garbage Hill Will Include Enviros Designed Leachate Treatment


The followiing is an extract from the Kuala Lumpur, "Straits Times Online", from last Sunday. Full article here.

One year ago, before experts put the Taman Beringin dumpsite on a demanding regiment of beauty treatments, it was the shame and bane of Kuala Lumpur.

For 30 years, Klang Valley happily emptied the bowels of its trash bins into the 15-hectare dumpsite. Eight million tonnes of rubbish later, it had become a monster.

It hulked ominously over the nearby Taman Nanyang and Taman Beringin, where people did their best to live with the unbearable stench. Black leachate oozed from the dumpsite’s every pore into the nearby rivers.

Flies, rats and stray dogs wandered about the piles of trash, spreading their disease-infested joy.

Now that the restoration is well under way, the Enviros Designed Leachate Treatment Plant will soon complete the greening, as follows:-

1.8km of pipes ring the perimeter of the hillock, channeling some 200m³ of leachate per day into two containment pools. The treatment plant, which will turn the leachate into clear, river-safe water, is scheduled to be ready by August.


This is the second Enviros Leachate Treatment Plant in Malaysia, and follows the larger plant at Bukit Tagar.