Groundwater landfill leachate

Phytodegradation Soils, groundwater, landfill leachate, land application of wastewater Herbicides (atrazine, alachlor) Aromatics (BTEX) Chlorinated aliphatics (TCE) Nutrients (NO, NH4+, PO3) Ammunition wastes (TNT, RDX) Phreatophyte trees (poplar, willow, cottonwood, aspen) Grasses (rye, Bermuda, sorghum, fescue) Legumes (clover, alfalfa, cowpeas)... 

Leachate in landfills. Leachate may be defined as hquid that has percolated through sohd waste and has extracted dissolved or suspended materials from it. In most landfills, the liqiiid portion of the leachate is composed of the liquid produced from the decomposition of the wastes and liquid that has entered the landfill from external sources, such as surface drainage, rainfall, groundwater, and water form underground springs. Representative data on chemical characteristics of leachate are reported in Table 25-72. 

A possible source for much of the groundwater contamination is landfill leachate containing trichloroethylene. Trichloroethylene was the most commonly found chemical at NPL sites in New York State (Mumtaz et al. 1994). The compound was detected in leachate samples from Minnesota municipal solid waste landfills at levels ranging from 0.7 to 125 pg/L (0.7-125 ppb) and in groundwater near landfills at levels ranging from 0.2 to 144 pg/L (0.2-144 ppb) (Sabel and Clark 1984). Trichloroethylene was also detected in landfill leachate from a landfill in New Jersey at concentrations of up to 7,700 pg/L (7,700 ppb) (Kosson et al. 

The harmful liquid that collects at the bottom of a landfill is known as leachate. The generation of leachate is a result of uncontrolled runoff, and percolation of precipitation and irrigation water into the landfill. Leachate can also include the moisture content initially contained in the waste, as well as infiltrating groundwater. Leachate contains a variety of chemical constituents derived from the solubilization of the materials deposited in the landfill and from the products of the chemical and biochemical reactions occurring within the landfill under the anaerobic conditions. 

Landfill leachate is an important point pollution source to water body, which contains DOM with a large number of unknown molecules that actively involve in biogeochemical and environmental processes (Chin et al. 1997). DOM not only plays an important role in freshwater systems for the mobility of toxic heavy metals and other pollutants but also may itself be a groundwater contaminant (Christensen etal. 1998). 

Water, groundwater, waste water, landfill leachate Solid-phase extraction activating with methanol dry elute with ethyl acetate/DAIP GC/MS 0.02 pg/L 94 Furtmann 1994... 

Phytoremediation is the use of plants to treat or stabilize contaminated soils, sediments, or water. Plants provide and support remediation processes in many ways. Common applications of phytoremediation-based systems include remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, reuse of municipal wastewater and biosolids, reuse of industrial wastewater and by-products, alternative landfill capping and erosion control, and landfill leachate reuse. 

The ECOCHOICE process can be used for treating drinking water, groundwater, industrial wastewater, landfill leachates, and bio-filter effluent. ECOCHOICE has been used at a groundwater treating operation at a military site in Tennessee to treat nitroaromatics. 

The SBP membrane filtration system concentrates contaminants and reduces the volume of contaminated groundwater, surface water, storm water, landfill leachates, and industrial process water. This hyperfiltration system consists of stainless steel tubes coated with a multilayered membrane, which is formed in-place using proprietary chemicals. The membrane filtration system can be used with an SBP bioremediation system or another technology as part of a treatment train. 

Suter, M. J.-F., S. Riediker, and W. Giger, Selective determination of aromatic sulfonates in landfill leachates and groundwater using microbore liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry , Anal. Chem., 71, 897-904 (1999). 

Mote Probably the most newsworthy, publicized incidents have stemmed from public and industrial dumping sites, covered in this summary under landfill leachate. A class of pesticides most commonly found in groundwater is ncmatocidcs. They arc particularly difficult because manufacturers design them to be both persistent and toxic. DBCP il,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane) is a representative nematocide. 

Leenheer, J. A., Nanny, M. A., and McIntyre, C. (2003). Terpenoids as major precursors of dissolved organic matter in landfill leachates, surface water, and groundwater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 37,2323-2331. 

Chemicals may enter groundwater as landfill leachates or from deep-well injection of hazardous wastes, leaching from soil and water, or septic tanks. Diffusion and advection are the typical mechanisms of chemical transport in groundwater. Groundwater may be taken up via human use or empty onto the surface waters via a natural spring. 

Krill and Sonzogni 1986 Otson 1987). Grosjean and wright (1983) detected acrolein, in combination with acetone, at a concentration of 0.05 ppt in rainwater collected in Los Angeles, CA however, these compounds were not detected in rainwater samples collected in four less densely populated sites in California. The Contract Laboratory Statistical Database reports that acrolein has been detected in water at 3 of 357 hazardous waste sites in the United States at mean concentrations ranging from 10.3-51,000 ppb (VIAR 1987). However, this database made no distinction between groundwater and surface water monitoring data. In the only report of acrolein occurrence in municipal landfill leachate, acrolein was detected at a concentration of 170 ppb in 1 of 5 leachate samples collected from sites in Wisconsin (Sabel and Clark 1984). 

Figure 6 Distribution of reported organic matter turnover under the various TEAPs in pristine surface water sediments and groundwater aquifers (a) and landfill-leachate contaminated groundwater (b). The respiration rates in pristine groundwater ((a) middle and right panels) were modeled using total electron acceptor species concentration (geochemical) and carbon isotope fractionation (isotopic constraints) (after Murphy and Schramke, 1998 and...

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