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The 'go-to' guidance for many in the landfill sector in the UK is still the waste management papers produced in the mid and late 1990's, and Waste Management Paper 26B (WMP26B)<ref name="refB">Waste Management Paper 26B (WMP26B): Landfill Design, Construction and Operational Practice</ref> describes the process of leachate generation and landfill design to contain the leachate and extract it from a [[Landfill]].

Leachate removed from the waste mass needs to be disposed of in an appropriate fashion. In general, this requires transmission to an appropriate treatment plant; this might be via a connection to the sewer system for ultimate treatment at an off site sewage treatment plant operated by a utility company, or an on-site leachate treatment plant owned and operated by the operator of the [[Landfill]]. Depending upon the capacity at the receiving utility treatment plant, Leachate may require pre-treatment at the landfill site prior to sending to the offsite sewage treatment plant.

Leachate removed from the waste mass needs to be disposed of in an appropriate fashion. In general, this requires transmission to an appropriate treatment plant; this might be via a connection to the sewer system for ultimate treatment at an off site sewage treatment plant operated by a utility company, or an on-site leachate treatment plant owned and operated by the operator of the [[Landfill]]. Depending upon the capacity at the receiving utility treatment plant, Leachate may require pre-treatment at the landfill site prior to sending to the offsite sewage treatment plant (examples below).

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| [[File:Leachate Treatment Plant 1.png|300px|left|Example of On Site Leachate Treatment Plant]] || [[File:Leachate Treatment Plant 2.png|300px|left|Example of On Site Leachate Treatment Plant]]

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In the case of an on-site leachate treatment plant, once appropriate quality standards have been met it may discharge to a receiving watercourse or (less frequently) a soak-away. Such a discharge would be regulated by the [[EA]] with an [[Environmental Permit]]. Discharge to a sewer, with or without pre-treatment, would require agreement with the relevant utility company as an industrial effluent.

In the event that no on-site treatment is possible, and no local connection to the sewage system is possible, Leachate may also be taken to an off-site facility (e.g utility sewage treatment works) via road-going tanker for treatment and disposal.

==References==

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 The 'go-to' guidance for many in the landfill sector in the UK is still the waste management papers produced in the mid and late 1990's, and Waste Management Paper 26B (WMP26B)<ref name="refB">Waste Management Paper 26B (WMP26B): Landfill Design, Construction and Operational Practice</ref> describes the process of leachate generation and landfill design to contain the leachate and extract it from a [[Landfill]].
-Leachate removed from the waste mass needs to be disposed of in an appropriate fashion. In general, this requires transmission to an appropriate treatment plant; this might be via a connection to the sewer system for ultimate treatment at an off site sewage treatment plant operated by a utility company, or an on-site leachate treatment plant owned and operated by the operator of the [[Landfill]]. Depending upon the capacity at the receiving utility treatment plant, Leachate may require pre-treatment at the landfill site prior to sending to the offsite sewage treatment plant.
+Leachate removed from the waste mass needs to be disposed of in an appropriate fashion. In general, this requires transmission to an appropriate treatment plant; this might be via a connection to the sewer system for ultimate treatment at an off site sewage treatment plant operated by a utility company, or an on-site leachate treatment plant owned and operated by the operator of the [[Landfill]]. Depending upon the capacity at the receiving utility treatment plant, Leachate may require pre-treatment at the landfill site prior to sending to the offsite sewage treatment plant (examples below).
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+| [[File:Leachate Treatment Plant 1.png|300px|left|Example of On Site Leachate Treatment Plant]] || [[File:Leachate Treatment Plant 2.png|300px|left|Example of On Site Leachate Treatment Plant]]
+|}
 In the case of an on-site leachate treatment plant, once appropriate quality standards have been met it may discharge to a receiving watercourse or (less frequently) a soak-away. Such a discharge would be regulated by the [[EA]] with an [[Environmental Permit]]. Discharge to a sewer, with or without pre-treatment, would require agreement with the relevant utility company as an industrial effluent.
 In the event that no on-site treatment is possible, and no local connection to the sewage system is possible, Leachate may also be taken to an off-site facility (e.g utility sewage treatment works) via road-going tanker for treatment and disposal.
+==References==
+<references/>