Welcome.

This site has been set up by waste management experts for the exchange of information about leachate irrigation, and related leachate management, treatment, and disposal techniques.

Please do enter your own irrigation site information, and you will be contacted for verification.
 

Final Draft November 2006

Important:
Most Leachate Processes described on this web site are NOT listed in the processes as part of the UK BAT process guidance.
 

“We believe that there is a continuing role for these processes in the UK, and throughout Europe.”

This web site has been set up by United Kingdom waste professionals to publicise all forms of landfill leachate management on land including Leachate Irrigation, Phytoremediation, Short Rotation Coppicing and other Biofuel Cropping, Reed Beds and Artificial Wetlands,

Leachate Irrigation Introduction

Help us to develop this web site as a tool to facilitate the collection and dissemination of data about the current state of the art in leachate irrigation, and phytoremediation* systems, including beneficial use schemes.

Contributions are invited from site operators and other waste management experts throughout the UK and Europe.

The information will be used by the authors of a proposed paper which will be presented at an event currently being planned, at which the future of these leachate management methods will be discussed.

The use of leachate irrigation is being allowed to continue in the UK for a number of low profile systems.

There was concern that further restrictions may be placed on the use of these techniques which many believe should continue to provide a useful tool for leachate management under certain circumstances at some sites. The danger of these systems being disallowed by the EA seems now to have passed (Summer 2007).
 

The Context Explained

The UK Environment Agency with DEFRA are have now reviewed policy for the use of leachate irrigation as a basis of compliance with EU environmental regulations, and in particular with the Landfill directive and BAT, but there is no guidance provided.

The authors wish to ensure that information is available on all leachate irrigation processes, and which we think shows the successful operation of these types of treatment systems, while the continued acceptability of such schemes is not clearly defined within the EA’s guidance notes (Final Draft).

The authors are not Waste Regulation legal experts, but they do have an understanding of sustainability principles and a wish to ensure that these inherently environmentally low energy utilisation, and low resource consumption, treatment processes are correctly understood.

The opinions given on this web site are those held by the individuals involved, and do not necessarily reflect those held by their employer organisations.

* Phytoremediation: The use of plants to remediate contamination.

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