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Committee advances leachate-management planning as PFAS constraints reduce offsite treatment options
Summary
Marathon County Solid Waste Department staff told the Environmental Resources Committee on July 1 that emerging contaminants — specifically PFAS — are increasingly limiting municipal wastewater-treatment plants’ ability to accept landfill leachate and that the county needs a plan to maintain compliant landfill operations.
Marathon County Solid Waste Department staff told the Environmental Resources Committee on July 1 that emerging contaminants — specifically PFAS — are increasingly limiting municipal wastewater-treatment plants’ ability to accept landfill leachate. Solid Waste Director Dave Heggen said the county needs a plan so it can continue compliant landfill operations if off-site treatment options are curtailed.
The committee voted to move the environmental management plan forward to the…
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