Oswego County moves closer to solving leachate problem - Fulton Valley News

by Carol Thompson

The Oswego County Legislature’s Infrastructure and Facilities Committee approved spending $19,500 for a consultant to continue with the development of a treatment system that will remove ammonia from the Bristol Hill Landfill leachate.

During the July 26 meeting, the committee moved a resolution to the floor for consideration of the expenditure.

According to Oswego County Solid Waste Director Frank Visser, the experimental testing performed at the Minoa Waste Water Treatment Plant was successful and the county would eventually like to move forward with the construction of a large scale test reactor.

Last year, the committee grappled with the leachate problem when the

City of Fulton was advised that its new permit from the Environmental Protection Agency wouldn’t allow the city to accept the leachate without having it first be treated for ammonia at the point of origin, which is the Bristol Hill Landfill.

As of next July, if the high ammonia levels continued, the county would need to find an alternate disposal site.

“The ammonia is the result of the lime stabilized sludge that the City of Oswego generates,” County Administrator Phil Church told the committee at that time.

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