Ohio municipal solid waste landfill leachate volumes and surface areas

Published: 28 November 2022| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/rmn843c3bk.1
Contributors:
Max Krause,
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Description

Monthly municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill leachate volumes (in gallons) for landfills in Ohio, USA. The leachate data are categorized in a delimited text file (Ohio_Leachate_Volumes.csv) organized under header columns: (A) Year, (B) Month, (C) Landfill name, (D) Identification Number, (E) Date, (F) Leachate Volume (gallons), (G) Management Type, (H) Management Description, (I) Location, and (J) Notes. Management Types are Disposed, Generated, Recycled, Treated On-Site, or Stored. Management Descriptions are Discharged, Hauled, Recirculated, Solidified, Sprayback, Evaporated, or Stored. Data are from 1988-2020. Data are complete based on available documentation but not all annual reports were available for all landfills in all years. The surface area data are categorized in a delimited text file (Ohio_Landfill_Surface_Areas.csv) organized under header columns: (A) Year, (B) Landfill Name, (C) Filled Area (Square Feet), and (D) Source. The Dataset_Readme.csv provides additional information for potential users.

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Steps to reproduce

The data were collected from Annual Operational Reports or Leachate Generation Reports (PDF documents) from Ohio EPA's eDocument system (http://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/edochome.aspx). The PDF documents were downloaded based on queries of the eDoc system using the landfill's name or Ohio Secondary ID (MSWLxxxxxx). Data were transcribed manually. More than 5% of entries were verified by someone other than the person who entered the data. Data verification occurred by visually examining the original document compared to the database entry.

Institutions

US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development

Categories

Landfill, Landfill Leachate, Municipal Solid Waste

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