Last time I talked about the different tours Esther and I have been giving. Well we had a tour last week that wasn't so great. It was an elementary school, fourth graders I think. Well apparently one of the kids got car sick while on the bus ride here, and she threw up outside of my office...and it was projectile. One of the teachers cleaned it up, but used a Clorox cleaner, so my office smelled like a swimming pool for the rest of the afternoon...not so fun.





I've been working on drawing a Process and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) for our gas/leachate lines. In the process of doing that, we opened the valve box for one of our leachate/condensation injection lines and found that the box was half full of condensate. Now keep in mind, this is a bottomless box. That means that it had been leaking in it long enough to create a biofilm across the bottom of the box so that the liquid could not percolate through the soil. Luckily it's on the lined part of the landfill so we're not breaking any regulations. That was quite the mess, and quite the smell. We're still trying to figure out the problem with it. It looks like there was a small leak in the runoff line coming from the Public Convenience Center (PCC) but that was replaced and condensate and/or leachate is still leaking in. I'm afraid the drainfield has failed. If that's the case, we're going to need to install a new drainfield.

Here it is after most of it being pumped out.

Last week, Esther and I had the opportunity to go to the Recycling Coalition of Utah (RCU) Conference. It was interesting to talk to various people from the state that are also recycling oriented. There were people from recycling companies, landfills, to retail stores. We talked about what we could do to further promote recycling and how we could possibly change legislation to promote recycling practices. It was pretty interesting.