Dive summary:
- On Monday the Canton City Council in Ohio will vote on a proposed agreement with Waste Management to build a 12-mile pipeline that would ship landfill liquids to the cities sewage plant.
- In return for taking Waste Managements leachate, the city would ship its sewage sludge to American Landfill, owned by Waste Management, in response to tightening federal clean-air rules.
- The largest concern expressed by the city is the possibility of low-level radiation and other contamination from drilling waste ending up in the leachate and create environmental problems in the nearby Nimishillen Creek.
From the article:
Easements would be required for the pipeline, she said. No price tag has been finalized.
The new agreement has been two years in the works, Mills said.
American Landfill offered to take the sludge for just over $17 per wet ton, compared to $40 at other landfills, Price said.
American has been trucking its leachate to the Alliance sewage plant for disposal. It sent 25 million gallons to that plant in 2011.
Canton expects to get about 60,000 gallons of leachate per day from the landfill, Price said. ...
