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Environmental regulation in the oleochemical industry addresses pollution of air, surface, and groundwater, along with land pollution and soHd waste disposal. This is adrninistered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the national level, an equivalent agency on the state level, and sometimes local agencies also deal with various aspects of pollution abatement. 

Landfills in wet areas. Because of the problems associated with contamination of local groundwaters, the development of odors, and structural stabihty, landfills must be avoided in wetlands. If wet areas such as ponds, pits, or quarries must be used as landfill sites, special provisions must be made to contain or ehminate the movement of leachate and gases from completed cells. Usually this is accomplished by first draining the site and then lining the bottom with a clay liner or other appropriate sealants. If a clay uner is used, it is important to continue operation of the drainage facility until the site is filled to avoid the creation of uplift pressures that could cause the liner to rupture from heaving. 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal, state and local authorities govern security of supply in relation to quantity for surface and groundwater by the granting of an abstraction license. The license limits the total daily quantity and the rate at which the waters may be abstracted, taking account of the natural resource and the needs of other abstractors. Metered water supply is subject to contract with the water companies, who may impose quantity and draw-off rate limitations. The limitations imposed by the license or contract may influence plant location. 

Computer codes usually calculate only the thermodynamically most stable configuration of a system. Modifications can simulate nonequilibrium, but there are limitations on the extent to which codes can be manipulated to simulate processes that are kinetically (rate) controlled the slow reaction rates in the deep-well environment compared with groundwater movement (i.e., failure to attain local homogeneous or heterogeneous reversibility within a meter or so of the injection site) create particular problems. 

In some configurations, the vacuum used in MPE increases the effective drawdown of ground-water (i.e., the increase or lowering of the depth of the groundwater table) locally near the pumped well. This has the effect of increasing exposed soil in the saturated zone and the removal of volatile contaminants located above and below the original water table. 

The site-specific requirements for landfill remediation should be developed before beginning design or selection of cover type. Site-specific requirements depend on numerous site-specific factors, including landfill history waste type, quantity, and age climate geologic setting local surface water and groundwater use and regulatory requirements. 

When the mercury-containing equipment is improperly disposed of on land, the mercury will eventually leachate out from the waste equipment. Once released into the environment, mercury remains there indefinitely, contaminating the soil, sediment, and groundwater. This contamination eventually enters the food chain, exposing local populations to mercury s harmful effects.2... 

A successful modem hazardous industrial waste treatment program for a particular industry will include not only traditional water pollution control but also air pollution control, noise control, soil conservation, site remediation, radiation protection, groundwater protection, hazardous waste management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal waste treatment and management. In fact, it should be a holistic environmental control program. Another intention of this handbook series is to provide technical and economical information on the development of the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both industry and local municipalities. Frequently, the most economically feasible methodology is a combined industrial-municipal waste treatment. 

It depends on local hydrographic conditions whether a playa is wet around the year or dries out. A playa may stay (almost) permanently wet if it is part of a closed basin that is under the influence of groundwater. Some playas such as the Dead Sea are fed by perennial rivers and will not dry out either but their water is so salty that salts precipitate. Laminated evaporates of considerable thickness can form in this way, with lamination reflecting the periodicity of the seasons. 

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