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Excerpt from Attenuation of Pollutants in Municipal Landfill Leachate by Clay Minerals, Vol. 1: Column Leaching and Field Verification
Leachate reduced the hydraulic conductivity of the columns during the laboratory experiments. A similar change in hydraulic conductivity was not clearly shown in the field data but probably exists. A ranking system was developed for evaluating the relative pollu tion hazard for municipal leachates. The new ranking method overcomes the problems found in a method for rating hazardous wastes that was previously proposed to the u.s. Environmental Protection Agency. The results of the study suggest that over-all pollution from land fill leachate would be reduced if landfill liners of earth materials were designed for higher hydraulic conductivity. Properly designed liners would selectively attenuate the toxic pollutants from the leachate and allow the ground water to dilute the nontoxic components that can be tolerated without harmful effects at much higher concentrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
