Solid Waste director: PFAS testing is complicating leachate disposal; prefiltration system needed sooner
Lisa Bauknecht told the committee that local facilities have tightened leachate acceptance rules and now require PFAS testing; the department has been rotating haulers and seeks to advance a previously planned prefiltration system estimated at $77,000, with some labor possibly handled by staff to reduce cost.
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Solid Waste Director Lisa Bauknecht told the committee that Oneida County has moved leachate between haulers after the Rhinelander facility stopped accepting it, and that the Merrill facility now requires PFAS testing as well.
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