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Buncombe County Landfill Project
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Other Information
- June 12, 2000: Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 37K, About PDF)
Stakeholder Meeting and Related Documents
- October 15, 2002: Monitoring Issues for Bioreactors Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium (PDF) (11 pp, 769K, About PDF)
- Expected in Nov 2003: Final Rule -- Research, Development, and Demonstration Permits for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill
- September 2002: Stakeholder Involvement Plan
- July 18, 2002: Final Rule Project XL Site- specific rulemaking for Implementing Waste Treatment Systems at Two Virginia Landfills, Federal Register (PDF) (11 pp, 83K, About PDF)
- June 10, 2002: Proposed Rule -- Research, Development, and Demonstration Permits for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill(PDF) (61 pp, 7K, About PDF)
- August 22, 2001: Final Rule Project XL Site-specific Rulemaking for Buncombe County Landfill, Alexander, Buncombe County, North Carolina(PDF) (19 pp, 48K, About PDF)
- August 13, 2001: Final Rule Project XL Site-specific Rulemaking for Yolo County Landfill, Davis, Yolo County, California(PDF) (10 pp, 80K, About PDF)
- June 12, 2000: DRAFT Workshop Summary for the Educational Workshop on Bioreactor Landfills (PDF) (16 pp, 34K, About PDF)
- June 2000: Draft Stakeholder Involvement Plan (PDF) (3 pp, 17K, About PDF)
- June 12, 2000: Sign-In Sheet for the Buncombe County Bioreactor Educational Workshop (PDF) (1 pp, 533K, About PDF)
- June 12, 2000: Bioreactor Educational Workshop, presented by Dr. Debra Reinhart (PDF) (59 pp, 2.4MB, About PDF)
- October 7, 1999: EPA Questions and Answers Memo on Landfill Gas-to-Energy Projects Addressing Public Health, Safety, and the Environment (PDF) (3 pp, 120K, About PDF)
Progress Reports
- July 2013: 2013 Progress Report (PDF) (155 pp, 5.3MB, About PDF)
- July 2012: 2012 Progress Report (PDF) (131 pp, 2.7MB, About PDF)
- February 2012: 2011 Progress Report (PDF) (130 pp, 4.9MB, About PDF)
- September 2011: 2010 Progress Report (PDF) (122 pp, 5.5MB, About PDF)
- September 30, 2002: Preliminary Design Report
- Full Document
- Table of Contents (PDF) (2 pp, 133K, About PDF)
- Section 1 - Introduction (PDF) (5 pp 112K, About PDF)
- Section 2 - Application Considerations (PDF) (5 pp 93K, About PDF)
- Section 3 - Bioreactor System Design (PDF) (7 pp 153K, About PDF)
- Section 4 - Gas Collection System Design (PDF) (4 pp 94K, About PDF)
- Section 5 - Operation Plan (PDF) (9 pp 187K, About PDF)
- Section 6 - Monitoring Plan (PDF) (7 pp 153K, About PDF)
- Section 7 - Stakeholder Involvement Plan (PDF) (2 pp 55K, About PDF)
- Appendix A - Final Project Agreement
- Appendix B - Geotechnical Stability Evaluation
- Appendix C - Drawings
- Appendix D - Calculations
- Appendix E - Revised NMOC Emission Rate Report
Technical Support Documents
- North
Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources,Requirements
for Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Facilities
- October 4, 1999, Operational Characteristics of Two Aerobic Landfill Systems (PDF) (9 pp, 51K, About PDF)
- February 7, 2001, Buncombe County Alternative Liner (PDF) (1 pg, 79K, About PDF)
- August 1995: Active Municipal Waste Landfill Operation:
A Biochemical Reactor by Debra Reinhart, University of Central Florida
for U.S. EPA.
- Full Document (PDF) (175 pp, 14.9MB, About PDF)
- Abstract, Foreword, Table of Contents, Figures, Tables, List of Abbreviations, and Acknowledgements (PDF) (12 pp, 616K, About PDF)
- Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF) (3 pp, 263K, About PDF)
- Chapter 2 - Executive Summary (PDF) (8 pp, 1MB, About PDF)
- Chapter 3 - Regulatory Status (PDF) (5 pp, 180KB, About PDF)
- Chapter 4 - Literature Review - Landfill Bioreactor Studies (PDF) ( 1 pp, 3MB, About PDF)
- Chapter 5 - Full-Scale Experiences with Bioreactor Landfills - Case Studies (PDF) (22 pp, 1.6MB, About PDF)
- Chapter 6 - The Impact of Leachate Recirculation of Leachate and Gas Characteristics (PDF) (13 pp, 2.9MB, About PDF)
- Chapter 7 - Landfill Bioreactor Design (PDF) (15 pp, 1.5MB, About PDF)
- Chapter 8 - Landfill Bioreactor Operation (PDF) (17 pp, 3.2MB, About PDF)
- References (PDF) (8 pp, 701K, About PDF)
- Appendix A - Survey of State Regulators - Leachate Recirculation (PDF) (12 pp, 719K, About PDF)
- Appendix B - Conventional Landfill COD Data (PDF) (6 pp, 283K, About PDF)
- Appendix C - Hydrodynamic Modeling of Leachate Recirculating Landfill (PDF) (11 pp, 797K, About PDF)
- Appendix D - Mathematical Modeling of Recirculating Landfill Leachate Quality - Methodology (PDF) (12 pp, 1MB, About PDF))