Dive Brief:
- The city of Bowling Green, Kentucky is crafting a plan that would stop a leachate leak at the city-owned Butler County landfill.
- Preliminary plans call for a cap to be installed over 11 acres of the facility in addition to placing tanks on site to contain the contaminated water.
Dive Insight:
The landfill shuttered in 1992 when new regulations were being introduced in and the site was approaching capacity.
