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Leachate data is compiled from a database of 70 MSWLFs [U.S. EPA 1988. Summary ofData on
<br />Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Characteristics -Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste
<br />Landfills (40 CFR Part 258) - Subtitle D of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
<br />(Background Document)]. Washington, DC: Office of Solid Waste.
<br />** Leachate data from 62 landfills.
<br />* * * Leachate data from 53 landfills.
<br />Source: U.S. EPA's National Pretreatment Program Report to Congress, July 1991, p. 3-81.
<br />Contaminant Concentration Ranges in Municipal Leachate
<br />Pollutant George Chain Metry/ Cameron Wisconsin Sobotka
<br />Parameter (1972) /DeWalle Cross (1978) Report Report
<br />1977 1977 20 Sites 44 Sites
<br />CONVENTIONAL
<br />BOD
<br />9-54,610
<br />81 -33,360
<br />2,200-
<br />720,000
<br />9-55,000
<br />ND - 195,000
<br />7-21,600
<br />pH
<br />3.7-8.5
<br />3.7-8.5
<br />3.7-8.5
<br />3.7-8.5
<br />5-8.9
<br />5.4-8.0
<br />TSS
<br />6-2,685
<br />10-700
<br />13-26,500
<br />2-140,900
<br />28-2,835
<br />NON -CONVENTIONAL
<br />Alkalinity
<br />0-20,850
<br />0-20,850
<br />310-9,500
<br />0-20,900
<br />ND - 15,050
<br />0-7,375
<br />Bicarbonate
<br />3,260 - 5,730
<br />Chlorides
<br />34-2,800
<br />4.7-2,467
<br />47-2,350
<br />34-2,800
<br />2-11,375
<br />120-5,475
<br />COD
<br />0-89,520
<br />40-89,520
<br />800-
<br />750,000
<br />0-9,000
<br />6.6-97,900
<br />440-50,450
<br />Fluorides
<br />0-2.13
<br />0-0.74
<br />0.12-0.790
<br />Hardness
<br />0-22,800
<br />0-22,800
<br />35-8,700
<br />0-22,800
<br />52-225,000
<br />0.8-9,380
<br />NH, -Nitrogen
<br />0-1,106
<br />0-1,106
<br />0.2-845
<br />0-1,106
<br />11.3-1,200
<br />NO
<br />-Nitrogen
<br />0-1,300
<br />0.2 - 1,0.29
<br />4.5-18
<br />0-5,0.95
<br />Organic
<br />Nitrogen
<br />2.4-550
<br />4.5-78.2
<br />Ortho-
<br />Phosphorus
<br />6.5-85
<br />0.3-136
<br />0-154
<br />Sulfates
<br />1 -1,826
<br />1 -1,558
<br />20-1,370
<br />0-1,826
<br />ND - 1,850
<br />8-500
<br />Sulfide
<br />0-0.13
<br />TOC
<br />256-28,000
<br />ND - 30,500
<br />5-6,884
<br />TDS
<br />0-42,276
<br />584-44,900
<br />100-51,000
<br />0-42,300
<br />584-50,430
<br />1,400-
<br />16,120
<br />Total -K-
<br />Nitrogen
<br />0-1,416
<br />2-3,320
<br />47.3-938
<br />Total
<br />Phosphorus
<br />1 -154
<br />0-130
<br />ND - 234
<br />Total Solids
<br />0-59,200
<br />1,900 -
<br />25,873
<br />METALS
<br />Aluminum 0-122 ND - 85 0.010-5.07
<br />Arsenic 0-11.6 ND -70.2 0-0.08
<br />Barium 0-5.4 ND - 12.5 0.01 - 10
<br />Beryllium 0-0.3 ND -0.36 0.001 -0.01
<br />K-3
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