How to pronounce“leachate”in English
nounOver the next two decades the buildings were renovated, contaminated soil was moved into more secure landfills and a permanent drain system was installed to collect chemical-filled groundwater, called leachate.
The leachate is pumped to an offsite treatment plant and filtered using activated charcoal which is basically just carbon atoms with a bunch of pores between them.
These pores allow toxic chemicals, especially carbon-containing ones to bind to the filter, making relatively clean water that can be treated along with normal sewage.
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Definitions of “leachate”
The liquid produced when water percolates through a permeable material.
“1980, Grant E. Kimmel, Olin C. Braids, Leachate Plumes in Ground Water from Babylon and Islip Landfills, Long Island, New York, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1085, page 32, Probably the main reason that leachate enrichment was highest near the bottom of the aquifer beneath the landfill is that the heavier, leachate-rich water sinks by gravity as it moves out of the refuse, and not because it is displaced downward by freshwater from the surface.”