After Hot, Aging Landfill Adds Gas System, Blackhawk Side-Slopes Take Over for Crusty Submersibles
A large, older landfill in a Southern state was baffled by significant changes in its operating characteristics after installing a landfill gas system.
The conscientiously well-run site, opened more than 20 years ago, always has been challenging — extremely harsh, hot and highly volatile. The regional gas manager called it more than a typical landfill, with high variability and breadth in the stream of accepted waste — 40-50 percent trash, 10 percent construction debris, plus significant amounts of industrial waste, bio solids, sludges, solidified liquids, offset products, ash and heavy metals. Industrial waste and fill are used as cover. There is little oxygen and no leachate fingerprint, the manager says.
