Lord help me if this is rage bait, because I’m 'baited.
The water from underneath landfills gets sent to the wastewater treatment plant (maybe) which isn’t designed to treat hydrocarbons and then in ends up in your surface water, which I presume you value more than ground water.
Maybe the wastewater treatment plant is on site and it probably gets less complete treatment than at a municipal plant.
It’s also possible the dump doesn’t have a leachate collection system and it’s def ending up in the groundwater.
Ground water doesn’t like…sit still?
Also people have wells. The wells might predate the dump. Or they don’t know the groundwater is fucked and someone goes to dig a well and finds out the water is fucked.
It’s not uncommon to build over landfills or build near them once they are ‘closed’. In 5 generations that might be a park.
I worked on the remediation of petroleum site and they are still sucking hydrocarbons out of the ground 70 years later. Didn’t stop them from building on top of it in the meantime, though.
Lord help me if this is rage bait, because I’m 'baited.
The water from underneath landfills gets sent to the wastewater treatment plant (maybe) which isn’t designed to treat hydrocarbons and then in ends up in your surface water, which I presume you value more than ground water.
Maybe the wastewater treatment plant is on site and it probably gets less complete treatment than at a municipal plant.
It’s also possible the dump doesn’t have a leachate collection system and it’s def ending up in the groundwater.
Ground water doesn’t like…sit still?
Also people have wells. The wells might predate the dump. Or they don’t know the groundwater is fucked and someone goes to dig a well and finds out the water is fucked.
It’s not uncommon to build over landfills or build near them once they are ‘closed’. In 5 generations that might be a park.
I worked on the remediation of petroleum site and they are still sucking hydrocarbons out of the ground 70 years later. Didn’t stop them from building on top of it in the meantime, though.