In the Friday
early morning on November 15, 2013, I went to the BadLands Sanitary Landfill in
Moreno Valley in California. Before I left my home, I could not imagine how big
the landfill is, and I also did not expect to see a HUGE landfill. It took
around 20 minutes from Riverside City College, and I went there with classmates
for carpool. It was cold to be outside.
When I arrived
there, I did not really realize that it was landfill. A tour guide came, and
all people went some places around landfill such as where trashes are gathering,
where they make some energy, and where they separate trashes. I heard about
History first. The landfill opened in 1966 as a burn site, but they switched to
landfill in 1970 because burning trashes pollute environment. The landfill
designated as Class 3 facility by Title 27 California Code of Regulations. The
landfill is permitted max tonnage of 4,000 tons per day, and they receive
average of 2,200 tons/day. The mountain of trash in landfill was covered by tarp.
They can save money by suing Tarp instead of filling with sands. Once landfill
filled up with trashes, and there is not any more space, they close. Also
nothing goes out of landfill. Everything stays inside except thing that could
be recycled. The liner system layer of landfill structures was 7 layers for
typical bottom liner system, and 5 layers for typical side slope liner system.
There are also
people who are monitoring the landfill, and they get inspection every single
month that they are still good to keep landfill. There are several monitoring
programs such as national Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System,
Groundwater Monitoring, Gas Monitoring, and Gas Collection System. There shouldn’t
be any drainage such as hazard, methane, and water. I felt that water leaking
is the most important for them to make sure there is not drainage of water, so
the other places’ water don’t get any polluted water from the landfill.
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I was sometimes
standing on the mountain of trashes, and sometimes not. They were expanding the
landfill since they need more space. The tour guide said that they are planning
to expand more even they are expanding right now. She said that if they get
more land, they could use the landfill more than 150years. It was amazing that
how fast they fill the land with trashes. However, even if it doesn’t smell and
we as a human being can use landfill almost forever for ourselves. We should
not throw away everything. They also get something almost new working perfectly
fine. It shouldn’t happen. One should try best to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
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