Dimmer Landfill Site: Difference between revisions
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There is Landfill Gas power generation with electricity export to the National Grid. Installed capacity is 2.96MW <ref>Ofgem Summary of Installed Capacity</ref> | There is Landfill Gas power generation with electricity export to the National Grid. Installed capacity is 2.96MW <ref>Ofgem Summary of Installed Capacity</ref> | ||
Viridor have been unable to secure a connection to the local sewerage system, principally due to a lack of local treatment capacity at the receiving Sewage Treatment Works. There is an on-site leachate treatment plant that discharges to a local watercourse. Dry weather flow in the receiving watercourse is low and consequently, the standards required to be achieved to discharge are sometimes difficult to achieve. Viridor have installed tertiary treatment via reedbeds and other growing media in order to permit discharge at times of dry weather. | Viridor have been unable to secure a connection to the local sewerage system, principally due to a lack of local treatment capacity at the receiving Sewage Treatment Works. There is an on-site leachate treatment plant that discharges to a local watercourse. Dry weather flow in the receiving watercourse is low and consequently, the standards required to be achieved to discharge are sometimes difficult to achieve. Viridor have installed tertiary treatment via reedbeds and other growing media in order to permit discharge at times of dry weather. Occasionally, leachate produced by the site is removed by tanker to appropriately permitted Sewage Treatment Works.<ref>Ellard Associates data</ref>. | ||
==Other Infrastructure== | ==Other Infrastructure== | ||