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EVALUATION PLAN FOR TWO LARGE-SCALE LANDFILL BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGIES
Citation:
Markwiese, J. T., A Vega*, R. B. Green, AND P. Black. EVALUATION PLAN FOR TWO LARGE-SCALE LANDFILL BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGIES. MSW MANAGEMENT 12(7):66-70, (2002).
Description:
Abstract - Waste Management, Inc., is operating two long-term bioreactor studies at the Outer Loop Landfill in Louisville, KY, including facultative landfill bioreactor and staged aerobic-anaerobic landfill bioreactor demonstrations. A Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) was prepared to document the primary objectives and the data collection and interpretation efforts for these studies. Treatment and control groups were established and consist of separate and distinct landfill units, each composed of paired cells. The primary objective for both studies is to evaluate leachate addition on waste stabilization.
Besides describing the planned experimental design and data analysis aspects of the project, the QAPP includes details regarding sample representativeness and field and laboratory analytical quality assurance/quality control procedures. All measurements needed to evaluate the primary objectives (critical measurements) are supplemented by quality control checks so that data of known quality are generated. These activities will help ensure that the data are appropriate for their intended use: to provide the landfill community with potential alternatives for rapid and controlled reduction of the waste mass in a landfill containment system. The approach described here has potential application to other landfill facilities across the country.