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Classification Methodology for Landfill Leachates

Journal

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 139, Issue 8, Pages 1119-1122

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ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000718

Keywords

Landfills; Monitoring; Liners; Chemical compounds; Waste management; Sanitary landfills; Monitoring; Liners; Chemical compounds; Waste management

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  1. Town of Brookhaven (NY)

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A characterization scheme based on landfill leachate chemical signatures could support studies of leachate evolution over time and liner performance, and help confirm or disprove potential leachate contamination of groundwater. Wide variations in single constituents across time, sites, and site practices, and inconsistencies related to common bivariate measures suggest a robust, multivariate analysis could be useful. A subjective analytical comparison of soluble salts has been developed and supports graphical depictions of multiple samples. The hypothesis is that leachates with similar chemistry form clusters, and this was tested using a data set of 652 samples from 26 distinct liner systems collected from a Long Island landfill over more than 20years. Most (75%) of diagrams were classified into three general leachate groupings that associated with the kinds of wastes received in the particular landfill module (90% if early leachate results are not considered).

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