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Committee Asked to Urge DEC to Tighten Rules on Landfill Leachate
Summary
A Kingston advisory presenter urged the Public Safety and Government Committee to ask the state Department of Environmental Conservation to begin rulemaking to close what advocates call a ‘‘landfill leachate loophole’’ that can let contaminants, including PFAS, reach drinking-water sources via wastewater treatment plants.
A community representative asked the City of Kingston Public Safety and Government Committee on Tuesday to send a resolution asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to begin rulemaking to better regulate landfill leachate and its discharge into wastewater systems.
The request was presented during a committee meeting by a representative of a local environmental advisory group; Robert Tennyson, the committee chair, and other members heard a detailed summary of a recent research report on landfill leachate and drinking-water risk in the Hudson and Mohawk river watersheds.
The presenter said the report — originally released in December and updated in January — documents that both operating and closed municipal landfills can generate leachate that…
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