Rapp Road Landfill oozes orange leachate

Daniel Van Riper writes: 

We’ve been hearing a lot about some of the collateral damage caused by the Albany Dump, officially called the Rapp Road “Landfill.”  . . . 

But oddly enough, there hasn’t been much interest in taking a look at the horrible toxic sludge that pours out of The Dump every single day. The word for this terrible crap is “leachate.” Most dumps both active and inactive manufacture this leachate deep within their airless bowels and it is usually a strange dirty orange color. 

Officially, allegedly, this orange leachate is “collected” into the City of Albany sewer system to be cleaned before being poured into the Hudson River. Now, I’ve always wondered how you collect runoff from a sprawling ever-expanding dump sitting on sand over an aquifer. Seems a tall order to me., especially since on my visits to The Dump I have never seen any visible evidence of this alleged collection system.

Continue reading this sometimes disgusting article here.

Comments

[Laura]

This is a test comment from TypePad Support.