The third leachate treatment station in Ukraine was installed at the MSW landfill in Volyn

A leachate treatment station was installed at the municipal solid waste landfill in the village of Bryshche, Lutsk district, Volyn region.

This was reported in the Lutsk City Council.

The new modular installation allows cleaning 50 cubic meters. m of polluted water per day. Officials assure that this volume is more than enough for the Lutsk landfill.

The cost of the station is €380,000, of which €250,000 is a grant from the German region of Lippe, the remaining €130,000 was financed from the city budget of Lutsk.

The installation of a modular station will solve the biggest environmental problem of all solid waste landfills — leachate, which continuously forms and pollutes the soil and groundwater. At the landfill, it is pumped by pumps from three collection points to a station that processes it into technical water.

After cleaning, 30% of the concentrate remains, as its further processing is impossible. It is taken to the territory of the landfill for moistening.

Volodymyr Martsenyuk, director of LSCAP "Lutskspecskomuntrans", said that previously the leachate was pumped with pumps to the body of the landfill, where it evaporated. Now this process has been made almost automated: the modular installation works remotely from the company that maintains it. The membrane filtration station cleans the filtrate and reduces the impact and burden on the environment.

"Now the project is at the final stage of implementation. When everything is arranged, it will be a great victory," Volodymyr Marceniuk said.

Earlier, EcoPolitic quite often writes about ecological and energy-efficient solutions implemented in the Lutsk community. Yes, in September we reported on launch of a solar power plant, which will almost completely cover the electricity needs of the local water utility. In March, EcoPolitics reported that the Lutsk authorities and the EBRD came to an agreement on the construction conditions of the waste processing complex. And at the end of September, we talked about the condominium "Blue House-43", which carried out thermal modernization of his forty-year-old house under the state program "Energodim" and received savings of energy resources of about 50% and significantly lower payments for heating.