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Committee moves forward with plan to address PFAS in landfill leachate; staff to pursue state funding
Summary
Facing potential cutoffs from wastewater plants, Marathon County committee approved starting planning for on-site leachate treatment — favoring reverse osmosis technology — and to pursue state clean water fund grants that could include principal forgiveness.
Marathon County's Environmental Resources Committee on July 1 approved moving forward with planning to treat landfill leachate on-site after solid waste staff warned that wastewater treatment plants increasingly are turning away leachate because of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) concerns.
Director Dave Heggen (Solid Waste) told the committee that leachate — storm water and liquids concentrated with everyday municipal waste breakdown products — is being treated by regional wastewater plants today but that emerging contaminant regulations (PFAS) are restricting receiving…
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