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leachate Definition

leach·ate (c̸hāt′)

noun

a solution obtained by leaching toxic leachate from a landfill

leachate Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • landfill: Furthermore, toxic chemicals in leachate from landfills that contain discarded WEEE can also cause significant environmental dangers.
  • incineration: Noxious or hazardous substances in packaging must be minimized in emissions, ash or leachate from incineration or landfill.

Converse of object

  • treat: The technologies developed for treating leachate have evolved to achieve compliance with increasingly strict discharge consent limits.
  • produce: As the material rots it also produces leachate, a polluting liquid that can seep into rivers.
  • prevent: Landfills are lined with clay and flexible synthetic membranes intended to prevent leachate escaping and contaminating the groundwater.
  • generate: At that time, the landfill site at Buckden in Cambridgeshire was generating leachate containing significant concentrations of herbicides, mecoprop and isoproturon.
  • call: Rubbish dumps create a strong chemical cocktail called leachate.
  • discharge: The report recommends a more detailed sampling and monitoring program and checks that discharged leachate is below recommended levels.

Adjective modifier

  • excess: Excess leachate is discharged under consent to the foul sewer.
  • toxic: For example, landfill sites have to be specially lined to prevent any leakage of toxic leachate.
  • contaminated: Both the slurry and contaminated leachate from the illegal landfill site were running freely off the site and badly polluting nearby streams.

Modifies a noun

  • treatment: The results of these trials are being incorporated into the full-scale design of leachate treatment plants for two landfills in Malaysia.
  • plant: It is hoped that the first phase including the leachate plant will commence early in 2005.
  • collection: A leachate collection system is installed at the base of each engineered cell.
  • management: It was recognized early on that leachate management would need to play an integral part.
  • test: Leachate Tests Helen Whitham - 25/07/2003 Looking at the CNMT_TTYP Pick list there does not appear to be an entry for Leachate test types.
  • system: A leachate collection system is installed at the base of each engineered cell.

Noun used with modifier

  • Landfill: Landfill leachate is a particularly difficult effluent to treat.
  • landfill: Application of landfill leachate to willow short rotation coppice.
  • soil: Laboratory tests have developed the use of microscopic algae to remove heavy metals from water and soil leachate.

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