Fraser Basin Landfill Inventory PDF Download

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No field visits to landfills, sampling or field measurements were included in the scope of work to confirm the accuracy or completeness of the information in the database. [...] The following steps were completed to acquire information regarding landfills: (96741-06/19/98-Dec9rpt.doc) 2-1 1) A copy of all the information available in the Ministry of Environment's landfill database (WASTE) was requested and reviewed; 2) A copy of a survey developed by the Ministry and completed by municipal landfills in 1995 was reviewed; 3) Solid Waste Disposal Study reports for Federal I [...] The listing of the plotted landfills is in Appendix B. The complete listing of all landfills in the Fraser Basin is in Appendix C. It was difficult to accurately determine the size of the landfills. [...] However, the permitted capacity may be much greater than the actual amount of waste disposed of in the landfill or the landfill may be receiving more waste than the permit allows for. [...] Determining typical leachate chemistry for the various industrial landfills proved to be problematic due to the wide variation in the types of waste, and the lack of available data referring to the leachate chemistry produced from industrial landfills.