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Update on Recent Activities at APAC-Reno

March 2007
No odor complaints received by APAC, Johnson County or KDHE.
  1. No detectable readings at the ambient air monitors.


  2. Average landfill gas concentration in March:  Methane 37.5%


  3. An estimated 2,008,800 cubic feet of landfill gas was removed and treated in March.


  4. An estimated 1,116,000 gallons of contact water (water that has seeped through the landfill and accumulated underneath the landfill) was removed and treated in March.


  5. All groundwater wells were sampled in March 2007. Final Ground Water study to be submitted to KDHE and JCED in May


  6. Transmitters at the west seep and catwalk were affected by cold weather and replaced in March.


  7. APAC installed 2 contact water removal pumps in the southwest corner of the landfill in April, pumping approximately 7.5 gallons per minute.


  8. Comments received from KDHE on permit application. Response to be submitted in early May, 2007.

 

 
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