Dive summary:

• New Morgan, Penn. is planning a 652-acre leachate plant due to break ground in September.
• The project will include a 5,000-square-foot main building, a 1.2-million-gallon storage tank, a 550,000-gallon aeration tank and will cost about $10 million.
• The city's leachate has recently been transported out of the city, causing a huge problem for haulers; in January, 145 tanker trucks took 844,824 gallons of leachate to the out-of-town facility and in February, 299 trucks transported 1.8 million gallons of leachate.

From the article:

The state Department of Environmental Protection has wanted the landfill to build a new plant so fewer trucks will be on the roads, Bonner said.

Leachate is water that drains through trash-disposal areas to become a smelly black liquid that is treated and purified before release into streams and rivers.

Zimmerman expects the new plant to operate in 2015. ...