[GreenYes] Re: unbelievable... a Monday morning zinger

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 12:38 PM 12/12/2006 -0500, Mark J. McConnell wrote:
>Hi tree huggers,
>Three things. 1 Who let them build on a landfill 
>duh! You know it's going to sink.

In some cases dumps have been redeveloped 
successfully but they aren't exactly prime real estate....

>  2 Methane is odorless so the smell is something else.

The odor comes, usually, from reduced sulfur 
compounds such as H2S also produced in the dump.

>  3 Does anyone know the law about dumping green 
> waste, leaf and limb in landfills and could you send me a link. Thanks

Varies from place to place.....

Alan

>
>Peace, Love and Compost,
>Mark
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:bobandcamille@no.address>Camille Armantrout
>To: <mailto:GreenYes@no.address>GreenYes@no.address
>Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:22 AM
>Subject: [GreenYes] Re: unbelievable... a Monday morning zinger
>
>Sure seems like someone has the Ohio 
>Environmental Protection Agency in their hip 
>pocket!  How could anyone, especially the EPA, 
>NOT suspect the landfill might be producing methane?!
>
>Camile
>This could be a headline out of the Onion?
>?Methane Inside Wal-Mart Built Upon Landfill -  Source of Methane Unknown?
>This little blurb below is from the Chartwell's 
>Waste Industry News Weekly Update - Dec. 8, 2006 
>?  Would you pay for this newsletter?
>Eric
>CLEVELAND-AREA WAL-MART SHUTTERED ON LANDFILL GAS
>A Wal-Mart store built atop a landfill in 
>Garfield Heights, Ohio has shut down because of 
>a methane gas leak. Employees at the store had 
>reported a bad smell and evacuated customers on 
>Tuesday, Dec. 5. Wal-Mart officials are not 
>certain when the store will reopen, although 
>fire officials say the methane fumes are not 
>concentrated enough to be dangerous. Wal-Mart 
>and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 
>have said the source of the methane has not yet been identified.
>
>
>Everyone is raving about 
><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=45083/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta>the 
>all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.
>
>
Alan Muller, Executive Director
Green Delaware
Box 69
Port Penn, DE 19731 USA
302.834.3466
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