INC NEWS - yard waste site

[Melissa Rooney]

Randy, have you written the city council and/or county
board of commissioners with your concerns on this?

Personally, I want to make sure that the water run-off
from that landfill is properly treated before it adds
to the continued pollution of our water and soil here
in the Triangle.

Where exactly is the landfill located? Do you have an
address? I would like to write our gov't officials
myself in this regard.

Thanks!
Melissa

Melissa Rooney
Fairfield
mmr121570 at yahoo.com
--- RW Pickle <randy at 27beverly.com> wrote:

> I have learned, that at the same time we were having
> issues with the
> quality of run-off of water at our once successful
> composting/grinding
> site on the back side of the landfill, another
> organics facility in Durham
> was also tested for water run-off quality. The State
> figured both
> facilities would have similar readings, but they did
> not.
> 
> The two different site tests would lead one to
> believe that the problem
> with water run-off (that now has the
> composting/grinding site shut down,
> cleaned up, and us sending our yard waste to
> Virginia) that has caused our
> facility to close in the first place had nothing to
> do with what was going
> on at the site (or was relative to the $380,000+
> fire). I believe it has
> everything to do with the leaching off of liquids
> from the landfill.
> 
> I say this because the other organics facility, when
> their water run-off
> testing was done, had no problems. It, however, is
> not located adjacent to
> a landfill. Hence, I can only surmise that it is the
> landfill causing the
> problem and not the organics that were on the site
> that is now closed. If
> that is the case, a leaching landfill could be an
> even larger problem as
> time goes on. And any further activity around the
> closed landfill, without
> taking the State mandated precautions of pumping
> water run-off to be
> treated (which is just next door thankfully), would
> be a waste of good
> money. We may even have to do that if we never
> utilize the land around the
> landfill again. Whatever we do there is going to
> continue to have this
> problem because it comes from the closed landfill.
> At least that is all I
> can see that would cause the different water quality
> issues between two
> similar facilities in the same general area
> (Durham).
> 
> Our closed landfill was not a Title D landfill. This
> refers to it being a
> lined landfill that over time, would allow any
> precipitation that
> penetrated it, to be trapped in a liner. No one
> guarantees their liners
> forever, so sooner or later they are expected to
> leak as well. It's been
> around 20 years since Title D was implemented, so
> the history of how good
> liners perform (or don't) is still debated. But they
> are better, at least
> as a protective thought process, than an unlined
> landfill.
> 
> Perhaps if we relocated our composting/grinding
> facility to a site further
> away from the closed landfill, all of the issues we
> have relative to poor
> water quality run-off will disappear. It works for
> another organics
> facility in Durham so it should work for the City as
> well. I now believe
> it is the landfill leachate that created this
> problem and the closing of
> the yard waste facility had nothing to do with the
> yard waste being housed
> there. If that is the case, then we have the same
> issues of capturing
> run-off water from the closed landfill regardless of
> what we do on the
> surrounding property. And it's my guess that there
> will be no end to poor
> quality of run-off water since the landfill is not
> going anywhere.
> 
> But none of this is relative to wasting a second
> fleet of trucks and a
> second tier of manpower to pick up yard waste
> separately. Since it's all
> being mixed at the transfer station and transported
> to Virginia, Saving
> anything at this point will be a blessing. We must
> be nearing the quarter
> of a million dollar ($250,000) mark as to what this
> thought process has
> cost us so far (it's been what we've done for 2
> months now). That's real
> money. When are we to see the bleeding end...
> 
> RWP
> 27 Beverly
> 
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