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Solid Waste director: PFAS testing is complicating leachate disposal; prefiltration system needed sooner
Summary
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.
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.
Bauknecht said leachate was being hauled to Medford and then temporarily to Big Blue to buy time. She told the committee the prefiltration system originally planned for 2027 was needed sooner to address new testing and acceptance requirements; the system is estimated to cost $77,000. Bauknecht said some labor costs could be reduced if department staff perform portions of the installation.
No formal procurement action or funding source was approved at the meeting; the item was reported for committee awareness and future planning.
