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What is a leachate?

What is a leachate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The liquid produced when water percolates through any permeable material.
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True, leachate can lead to many lesser health problems and environmental effects that the EPA did not assess.
Sludge in the landfill ferments and produces polluting leachate and greenhouse gases.
All landfills, including those not in use, produce landfill gases and leachate, or water that has permeated the surrounding soil.
It also provides a means of collecting most of that leakage and therefore is a second leachate collection system.
The leachate was separated from the solids by centrifugation, and the dissolved polonium isotopes in the liquid were plated spontaneously onto a silver planchet.
The residual material no longer produces methane, and leachate is much reduced.

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