leachate
leachate
Definition
leach·ate (lē′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
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