Project Number:
DNR-104
Other Project Number:
WR92R006
Funding Year:
1992
Contract Period:
07/01/1992 - 06/30/1994
Funding Source:
DNR
Investigator(s):
PIs:- Jack Connelly, WDNR Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste
- Janet Batista, WDNR Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste
Abstract:
Since the early 1980s, the DNR has sampled groundwater monitoring wells at municipal solid waste landfills for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The DNR recognizes the need to evaluate the occurrence and fate of VOCs at Wisconsin landfills in order to design efficient management strategies to minimize the migration of VOCs to groundwater.
Objectives
- Evaluate trends in VOC contamination at closed, unengineered landfills over time;
- Evaluate the performance of older, engineered landfills in retarding the migration of VOCs to groundwater;
- Determine whether DNR should expand its list of required VOCs to include numerous non-standard VOCs (included with EPA requirements for municipal landfill assessment monitoring); and
- Investigate the reliability of the VOC data reported to DNR.
Final report was submitted as conference proceedings:
Battista, J. R., & Connelly, J. P. (1994). VOCs at Wisconsin landfills: recent findings. Proceedings of the 17th International Madison Waste Conference, Madison, WI, pp. 67–86.