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Toxic fumes seeping fro holding facility
• by David Scott
The til -Huron Landfill
Site (MHLS) Board is tak-
ing action aftert* xic fumes
n
fro its leachate holding
facility: at Parsons Court .in
Goder'ich, recently seeped
into neighbouring buildings=
Readies taken by Ken.
,Hunter' Commissioner of
Works for Goderich and;'
Pollution Control : Plant
Supervisor Duane .forth on
March 12 after complaints
were received from the
Knights, of Colnrnbbs hall
and Sunceast Enterprises,
11. revealed high levels of toxic
fumes, likely hydrogen sul-
I fide.
At 10 parts per million
(ppm), the maximum allow-
gaable
limit for exposure to
tn hydrogen sulfide is 10 min-
i' utes. Thea toxic fumes were
greater than' tthe meter could
read (over 100 ppm), says
Hunter. "It could have been
1,000 (ppm). I don'tknpw,�'
Hydrogen Sulfide is a
colourless, flammable gas
with a characteristic odour
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concentrations;o 0.02 ppm.
Higher toxic concentrations
can rapidly deaden sense -of '
smell, according to occupa-
tional
ccupa
tional hazard information
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from the Huron County
Health :Unit:
"Concentrations of .500-
1,000 ppm cause. rapid
unconsciousness and death •
through respiratory paraly-
sis, states industry litera
tore
As well; methane read-
ings 'weree above the allow-
able combustible level in
two locations including the
Knights of Columbus ball
which read 17 per cent.
"I attended the site and
found that, the ,building was
- indeed full otieaclate
smell. We •opened : a
cleanout in the building and
the odour coming out of it
was unbelievable," stated
'Hunter in his report to, the
board.
Leachate is liquid created
by ruiuwat'I!Mehl falls
onto the la' ti and $oaks
into the w% a and enters
tiling which flows. into a
holding facility at the:.
Hu1mesville sine:
An S, 0 -gallon tanker
truek Owned by Ross
Jannubecker • 'of RR 5
Goderich regularly hauls, the
leachate, It's taken to the
leachate facility at .?arson's
Court and pumped into a
manhole. The facility is
large Though tel hold a cou-
ple of truckloadsof
leachate, said Hater in an
interview.
It L then metered and
slowly released into the reg
ular se -wage system in ..
Goderich. "There's a little
tiny pump that pumps it out
at ,10 gallons a minute so
then it doesn't overload
anything. It goes intodthe
(sewage treatment) plant
slowly. Leachate and regu-
lar sewage are basically the
same, except leachate is
,,much stronger. The compo-
nents,are the same."
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° The11�Hby theLS is used
towns Of Seaforth, •Clinton
and .Goderich, Villages. of
Lucknow and Bayfield, and
-townships of Goderich,
Tuckersmith and'Colborne.
The board has been `told by
their engineering firrn,
Conestoga 'Rovers of
'Waterloo, to addlime lime to the
leachate truck to lower the
:H: for a temporary splu-
tioin
"Thais could be a 'very
serious matter ,if we cannot
solve this problem and' itis
certainly; anunacceptable
situation to have the
leachate smell in the build-
ings," stated Hunter in his
report to the board.
"It's important we don't
cause .our neighbours any
'problems," he said. •
"If :the Knights.
Columbus had a function
that day, they'd have to can-
pel," said MHLS board
chair Laurie Cox, Reeve - of
Goderich Township.
However, the • board
doesn't want to use lime a
a perrnanelrt'.i olutien. Site
Supervisor Prank Posttll
;s'aitk
the lime is settling in.
annabecker's tanker, -
9 f we start playing
around with lime we will
skewer the results for
Conestoga Rovers," . said
Cox. "
Porth also said it's not a
good idea to use lime over
the long tern:.
"The more chemicals ,you
put in you compound the
problem. A mechanical
solution is better than chem-
ica1 said Hunter. He said.
he will suggest to
Conestoga Rovers that} they
put a trap on the dine. that
runs from their building to
the street.
As for the cause of the
high toxic. levels Hunter
says hedoesn't know
whether there's a change in
the leachate or it's because
they're hauling more.
Hunter has suggested to
the "owners of buildings
where .fumes were present
to fill the sewer traps up
with' water. In ' one building,
linoleum covered the floor -
drains Which were dry.
They're since been
opened and filled with
water.
Hunter explained in an
interview how the toxic
fumes travelled to neigh=
bearing :buildings,
n
'from main
It goes � the
sewer up the little ewer
pipes .to the buildings. It
runs uphill and: perhaps
some .of the fumes might pe
lighter than., air, it rums up
these pipes and get inside
the. pipes. in the buildings,
As long .as . ally the traps are.
full (of water) there's no
way the fumes can get from
the sewer into the building.
But obviously some of, the
traps were empty: They're
. floor traps, they never get
any water put in them."
In a separate patter, the
MHLS received complaints
from the leachate hauler
that it takes too long to
empty the load at the
leachate transfer facility .
"The (four -inch) pipe
into the facility is not large
enough to allow the load to
beunloaded as quickly as
the truck is capable of
unloading . it," stated
Hunter's report.
The board passed a
motion to have Conestoga
Rovers investigate further
into the leachate problem:
and prepare a report; and
prepare a plan to modify the
unloading pipe SO thecon-
tractor can' unload at a
quicker rate.
The engineer must pre-
pare a plan for the leachate
loading because itwill
require a change to the land-
fill's certificate of approval
and will reflect in the next
leachate hauling tender,
according to Hunter
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