One Day Course 27 Feb 2008
Course Title: Leachate Monitoring (plus treatment)
A one day (non-residential)course
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Are you involved in the monitoring or the control of leachate from landfills? Do you really understand what leachate is and how to effectively monitor it?
This course will provide an understanding of what leachate is, its composition, appropriate monitoring requirements including practical demonstrations of using a range of equipment. The course will also provide an introduction to the treatment of leachate.
What’s in it for me?
By the end of the course you will be able to:
• Explain the basic principles of leachate generation
• Identify key contaminants and their risks
• Explain the requirements of monitoring programmes and their objectives
• Know what current technical guidance documents are available
• Use the data generated to identify problems to ensure appropriate actions can be determined
• Identify a range of monitoring equipment and understand how they are to be used
• Explain some typical leachate treatment systems and be aware of the monitoring requirements of them.
Who is it for?
Technical staff working in landfill site operations, or design and regulation, with day to day responsibility for the monitoring of leachate generated by landfills or the monitoring of leachate treatment facilities.
For more information and booking visit the CIWM web site here.
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Waste Management Inc. Virginia USA - Leachate Spill Settlement
State's largest landfill fined for garbage juice spill
Originally Posted to: Environment News Virginia
By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, © February 12, 2008
The owner of the state's largest landfill, in Sussex County, has agreed to pay a $14,250 fine for an environmental accident in 2006, when some 8,000 gallons of garbage juice - known as leachate - spilled into wetlands.
It is the first time that the Atlantic Waste Disposal Inc. landfill, owned by trash-giant Waste Management Inc., has been in trouble with the state Department of Environmental Quality, according to records and officials.
Under the terms of a proposed settlement, the company would pay the fine, assess any environmental harm from the spill and adopt better monitoring of ammonia and other pollutants that might wash off its massive landfill and taint neighboring lands and waters.
Spread across more than 1,300 acres near Waverly, on the western outskirts of Hampton Roads, the private facility accepts the most trash of any landfill in Virginia, said Bill Hayden, a state environmental department spokesman.
Under its state permit, the Atlantic Waste Disposal site can take out-of-state garbage, in-state trash, sludge, scrap metal and industrial debris - but not medical waste, asbestos or hazar dous waste.
It is one of several landfills constructed in the 1990s east of Interstate 95 that have made Virginia the second-largest importer of household garbage in the country. Pennsylvania is No. 1.
According to the proposed written settlement, the accident occurred Nov. 9, 2006. The leachate was being pumped into a tanker truck, but the driver fell asleep and some 8,000 gallons overflowed onto the ground, said Michael P. Kearns, district manager for Atlantic Waste Disposal Inc.
"He woke up and there was stuff running all over the place," Kearns said. "He came and told us right away."
The juice ran off a loading pad, into a drainage ditch and settled in nearby wetlands, which are considered "waters of the state" because of their environmental importance, according to the settlement.
The company immediately contacted state environmental officials, as required by law, and a cleanup began, said Jennifer Hoeffner, a state enforcement specialist overseeing the case. More....
Originally Posted to: Environment News Virginia
By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, © February 12, 2008
The owner of the state's largest landfill, in Sussex County, has agreed to pay a $14,250 fine for an environmental accident in 2006, when some 8,000 gallons of garbage juice - known as leachate - spilled into wetlands.
It is the first time that the Atlantic Waste Disposal Inc. landfill, owned by trash-giant Waste Management Inc., has been in trouble with the state Department of Environmental Quality, according to records and officials.
Under the terms of a proposed settlement, the company would pay the fine, assess any environmental harm from the spill and adopt better monitoring of ammonia and other pollutants that might wash off its massive landfill and taint neighboring lands and waters.
Spread across more than 1,300 acres near Waverly, on the western outskirts of Hampton Roads, the private facility accepts the most trash of any landfill in Virginia, said Bill Hayden, a state environmental department spokesman.
Under its state permit, the Atlantic Waste Disposal site can take out-of-state garbage, in-state trash, sludge, scrap metal and industrial debris - but not medical waste, asbestos or hazar dous waste.
It is one of several landfills constructed in the 1990s east of Interstate 95 that have made Virginia the second-largest importer of household garbage in the country. Pennsylvania is No. 1.
According to the proposed written settlement, the accident occurred Nov. 9, 2006. The leachate was being pumped into a tanker truck, but the driver fell asleep and some 8,000 gallons overflowed onto the ground, said Michael P. Kearns, district manager for Atlantic Waste Disposal Inc.
"He woke up and there was stuff running all over the place," Kearns said. "He came and told us right away."
The juice ran off a loading pad, into a drainage ditch and settled in nearby wetlands, which are considered "waters of the state" because of their environmental importance, according to the settlement.
The company immediately contacted state environmental officials, as required by law, and a cleanup began, said Jennifer Hoeffner, a state enforcement specialist overseeing the case. More....
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