Agenda - Council - 10/14/1980 - Laserfiche WebLink

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-2- ?.c~ne~;~l.ed cs a r~;,,:ult o£ decomposition o£ the p~tpesc.tb].e l~ortion o~ the peruse ~.~d vent them to the atn~sphere before they hr~d ~ oppoptt.~q[~y to ]at.era]ly in the s~)stmface ~d .cause a possible explosion hr~,~d in resid(~nts~ b~en~nts. Tl~e system was cor~)leted in 19'78 ~d operated, with moniLon[ng, durJ. ng thc v.,Jnters of 1978-1979 ~d 1979-1980. ~thou~ monitored occ~Jon~_tlly dtming the f~st-~e period, the venting system wr~ not actu~ly r~n drying the wtu~r ~nths became it w~ believed the l~dFill g~es would vent no~z~ly to the at~sphe~ t~: s~fici~ soils rather th~ ~ve' later~ly tNnder a f~st layer. F~the~, ~nitoring t~p to that point had indicated no p~blem d~ing the s~r. In late July, 1980, sever~ ~sidents of the adjoining ho~s beg~ canp]~ning that pine t~es ~st the l~dfill in their backy~ds were dying ~d that the soil benea~ the t~es had a putrid odor. The gms system was tu~ed qn (Au~st 2-7, 198~) but ~n the ~sidents c~pl~ned that v.,J th open doors ~d ~ndows ~d inc~ed ~e of. their backy~s d~ing the st~er, the f~ noise on the collection system w~ ~oying, ~d so, W.:t~;te M~ement shut the system do~ once mo~. Shortly there~ter, tne co, tory ~d Agency beene involved ~d est~lished sever~ gas monitoring poJ~ts' in the ~sidents' backy~s. ~ August 12, 1980, co'~ty ~d Agency at.;d'~ extensively p~bed the ~a west ~d north of the lp~d~J 11. At s. tati. ons, concentrations of c~b~tible g~es in excess of the lower ex- plosive limit v~ fo~d. A cheek of residents' b~e~nts reve~ed g~ concentrations at or ne~ hackled levels, however. '~e g~ collection system w~ ~tivated. ~ Au~st 27, 1980, Dr. Ed Gilm~, Rutgers ~ive~ity, a pl~t pathologist ~d nation~ly-