No excess gases have been detected by the $60,000 gas probes installed around the perimeter of the Central Peninsula Landfill last November.
Solid Waste Director Jack Maryott said the borough was instructed by the Department of Environmental Conservation to install the probes beyond three that were already installed.
Maryott: “As our landfill expands it’s not uncommon for them to ask us to expand our detection network. That’s what these are is they are to detect and track movement of landfill gas. So we have three probes that are immediately around the landfill, and I’m talking the working landfill, and so we did get some detection on one of those.So they requested us to expand that network.”
The main landfill gases being monitored are carbon dioxide and methane along with other trace gases.
He said the probes will continue monitoring the Central Peninsula Landfill as it continues growing; cell one only has about 20% left before it’s filled.
Maryott: “And then moved into cell two, which has been constructed, and we anticipate moving into cell three in about four years from now. So we’ll have to have that designed and constructed to be prepared.”
The funding for those probes was allocated by the borough assembly on October 14, 2014
