Bristol landfill episode #5

In this episode I sit down with my friend and guest Brad as we discuss wastewater. Brad knows quite a lot about the regulatory environment related to water quality and wastewater requirements. We discuss how the wastewater treatment process normally works and how it's NOT working as intended in this case as related to the leachate and wastewater being produced by the landfill in Bristol VA.
SPOILER- it's a very bad situation that will affect people even if they can't smell the landfill gasses.  500,000 gal/day of toxic liquids are coming out of the landfill everyday.
Some links here for reference:
What is an NPDES permit?      https://www.epa.gov/npdes/npdes-permit-basics
What is pretreatment?   
   https://www.tn.gov/environment/permit-permits/water-permits1/npdes-permits1/npdes-pretreatment-program.html
Discharge permit to Bristol TN from BVU
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P91uEpRDcFK2d49hEYgSI-i3Qx9h5RNd/view
Bristol wastewater treatment center permit
https://dataviewers.tdec.tn.gov/dataviewers/f?p=2005:34051:2695843727769:::34051:P34051_PERMIT_NUMBER:TN0023531
VADEQ freedom of info records request page:
https://www.deq.virginia.gov/get-involved/about-deq/freedom-of-information-act/online-records
Hope for Bristol Community Meeting 1/6/23 w Lois Gibbs & Stephen Lester
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5u-x_hAp-U

https://hopeforbristol.org/      <-- with more documents posted here in the future

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