MSW Management’s 2023 Landfill Supplement Highlights Heartland’s Evaporation Solution and Successful Project Case Study
Heartland is pleased to be included in this year’s MSW Management Annual Landfill Supplement publication, featuring landfill management insight and evaporation advantages from Chief Marketing Officer Casey Cammann and a case study describing the on-site leachate treatment project at the Hillsborough County Southeast Landfill (“HC-SELF”).
David Richardson’s piece The Landfill Next Door breaks down many aspects of landfill management including litter prevention, compaction, odor and more. A theme of the piece was compliance with stringent regulations in a shifting industry. As part of the ongoing industry shifts, we are seeing a change in leachate treatment costs, with rising disposal costs and shrinking outlets. Casey notes the changes which are contributing to a very real and expensive dilemma for landfills, but also suggests that Heartland can help. “The idea is to reduce the amount of leachate and be sure to have a long-term solution so landfill operators are not caught by surprise with a constraint on their disposal options,” says Casey Cammann. Heartland’s turnkey Leachate Management Service (LMS) offering, featuring its unique proprietary technology, addresses these changing dynamics by locking in a long-term, cost-effective solution.
MSW’s 2023 Supplement also shines light on a success story with the piece Landfill Establishes Cost and Disposal Certainty with On-Site Leachate Evaporation written by Heartland’s Casey Cammann and Hillsborough County’s Larry Ruiz. Cut-off from its long-term local disposal partner, the Hillsborough landfill installed a Low Momentum—High Turbulence (LM-HT®) Concentrator to treat 50,000 GPD of leachate. Utilizing existing otherwise flared LFG for as a renewable thermal energy source for operations, the closed-loop process greatly reduced expensive offsite trucking from 13 to 5 trucks a day, and reduced overall treatment costs by over 20%. Another critical part of the project was automated controls and monitoring through the Heartland Heartbeat™ system, offering real-time data accessibility and predictive maintenance. The automated reporting assists with operational compliance, giving the landfill a real-time comprehensive view of plant performance and enabling operational success.
Read MSW’s piece here.
The featured Hillsborough case study will also be highlighted and discussed in the upcoming Concurrent Session: Making Your Leachate Discharge Concerns Evaporate Into Thin Air at SWANA SOAR April 19th from 3-3:45 PM, so be sure to tune in then!
