Use of activated carbon to treat landfill gas at Villa Park Landfill, Orange County, CA
In June, 1995, the Orange County integrated Waste Management Department (IWMD) contacted SCS Engineers for assistance regarding landfill gas (LFG) migration from a small closed landfill in the community of Villa Park in suburban Orange County, California. High concentrations of methane (up to 60 percent) had been detected in monitoring probes along the perimeter of the landfill, which is within 200 feet of several expensive homes shown in Figure 1. SCS Engineers and its construction subsidiary, SCS Field Services, were contracted by the County on an emergency basis to design and install a system of extraction wells in the landfill to mitigate the migration problem. Within six weeks of design approval, SCS completed installation of an LFG extraction, treatment, and monitoring system consisting of 17 extraction wells connected by below-grade HDPE header piping, and 22 perimeter monitoring probes with multi-depth casings. In addition to the requirements that a swift response be made to an emergency situation, this project was unusual due to the use of a carbon adsorption system to treat the collected LFG.
- OSTI ID:
- 381451
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9603165-; TRN: 96:004279-0008
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 19. Solid Waste Associaton conference of North America (SWANA), Raleigh, NC (United States), 19-21 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 19th Annual landfill gas symposium; PB: 297 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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