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Kingston committee hears concerns about landfill leachate, 'forever chemicals' and potential resolutions
Summary
A CAC briefing raised statewide concerns about landfill leachate entering sewage plants without treatment for persistent contaminants and suggested the council may consider a resolution asking regulators and the city sewage plant to stop accepting leachate.
Conservation Advisory Council members warned the Public Safety and General Government Committee that landfills’ leachate — the runoff that passes through buried waste — can carry persistent contaminants that sewage treatment plants may not remove.
Emily Hauser, representing the CAC, summarized recent work by Riverkeeper-associated researchers who say leachate transported to municipal…
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