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The performance of a natural treatment system for landfill leachate with special emphasis on the fate of organic pollutants

Department of Analytical Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden, Lars.Thorneby{at}analykem.lu.se

Lennart Mathiasson

Department of Analytical Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

Lennart Mårtensson

Department of Mathematics and Natural Science, Kristianstad University SE-291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden

William Hogland

Department of Technology, University of Kalmar, SE-391 82 Kalmar, Sweden

A natural treatment system for the treatment of leachate was studied at Moskogen landfill in southern Sweden. This facility consists of three consecutive ponds and a soil-plant (SP)-system. A test area, receiving water from the third pond with the same hydraulic load as the SP-system, was used for estimation of the latter system. Quality parameters including biochemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon, ammonium, nitrate, orthophosphate, and total suspended solids along the treatment line were determined as well as soluble metals (Cu, Cd, Zn, Cr, Ni, and Pb). In addition a thorough investigation along the treatment line has also been performed concerning volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds. Non-polar organic compounds were investigated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Quantification was based on the assumption of equal response for the compounds found in comparison with the chosen marker substances. For polar, water-soluble compounds the measurements were restricted to phenolic compounds using high-performance liquid chromatography. Several different types of organic compounds were found in the raw leachate including aromatics, benzene-sulfonamides, biphenyls, naphthalene, organic phosphates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, phenols and phthalates. The treatment system efficiently reduced organic pollutants, heavy metals, and nitrogen/phosphorous compounds. Most metals and organic compounds in the leachate were already significantly reduced to a low level in the treatment ponds and ammonium-N was efficiently transformed to nitrate-N in the SP-system.

Key Words: Leachate • natural treatment • soil-plant system • organic pollutants • metals • wmr 882-2

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