Waste Management, Inc.
Water Quality Monitoring
Turnkey Landfill, Rochester, NH
Waste Management, Inc. is the largest waste management company in the United States. EST provided water quality monitoring and related field services at the 1,300-acre Turney Landfill site in Rochester, NH. It is estimated that the facility contains over twenty (20) million tons of solid waste. The site includes a vast network of monitoring wells and a leachate collection system.
EST environmental monitoring services included quarterly groundwater, surface water, and leachate sampling services requiring the collection of over one hundred (100) samples annually. Groundwater samples were collected in accordance with EPA Low Flow Sampling Procedures. EST measured static water level, pH, temperature, conductivity, oxidation reduction potential (ORP) and dissolved oxygen prior to sample collection. Groundwater samples requiring dissolved metals analysis were field filtered to 0.45 micron. EST ensured that all samples are collected in accordance with EPA approved methods, preserved in accordance with 40 CFR part 136 and prepared for delivery to Waste Management’s contract laboratory. All work was performed in strict accordance with EST’s Corporate Health and Safety Plan, OSHA standards, and approved Waste Management practices.
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