Landfill Leachate Remediation Project - Armstrong, BC
Discussion
By using the sun’s energy to produce fast growing trees with a landfill liquid waste as irrigation, we recognize the following benefits:
- carbon fixing and evapotranspiration to recondition the atmosphere and the water
- dust and sound barrier belt between landfill operations and neighbors
- a better way to remedy leachate or utilize it as a resource
- ambience for a landfill site, (“Everyone’s Park”)
- tree growth may or could be seen as perfect fusion in reverse; the reverse of that is energy produced, ie: ethanol; creating value for wood fiber
- get leachate out of the food chain
- get leachate out of the ground water
Pumping speed is a factor. Slow speed is best, or as slow as possible for the roots to do their job naturally as opposed to a sudden over flooding. The soil does act as a sponge but a tree will be more comfortable with a given flow over a longer period over a too short a time for the same volume.
Bark and wood burning power producers collecting particulate, (ashes) and residual ashes caused within the burning process, find the ashes very high in PH and laden with heavy metals. This proves trees naturally sequester metals as they grow in the soil. Fast growing trees do it better and of course remedy the atmosphere as well by carbon sequestration. It is simple common sense to conclude the water will be naturally rejuvenated through the reverse fusion, (growth), and evapotranspiration process.
Pumping “irrigant” at as low as possible a pressure, arrested aerosol action, thereby keeping the pungent rotten egg smell at bay.
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