'Surrounding residents will become unwitting test subjects,' JustinNobel writes about a proposed landfill. 'I encourage all Pennsylvanians concerned about the oil and gas industry’s continued transgressions to raise their voices and comment.'
despite many known hazards. As a result, the industry has regularly resorted to risky disposal measures, including disposing of oil-field brine at sewage treatment plants and spreading drilling waste on farm fields, a practice common in Oklahoma and Texas. For landfills that accept oil field waste, one big problem is leachate.
For years, liquid landfill waste from Westmoreland flowed through a sewer pipe and into Belle Vernon’s sewage-treatment plant. In 2019, I met the plant’s superintendent, Guy Kruppa. He told methat it was ruining his plant’s ability to treat sewage. Not only that, but it was also sending contaminants into the Monongahela River, a drinking water source. That same year, a judge ordered the landfill to halt the practice.
Liquid landfill waste clearly remains an issue, but we have two constantly moving bodies of fluids on this planet: water and air. If you can’t use water to carry away your waste for free, why not try the air? A leachate evaporator is a gas-fired boiler that will cook away the liquid landfill waste. A pair of treatment systems will remove 99% of the radioactivity, according to Westmoreland, relying in part on a device called a mist eliminator. But the science of precisely how this will be done is not clear and was not well explained during a hearing in early September.
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