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BRUNSWICK WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY, BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA
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The Brunswick Waste Management Facility is a permitted 267 acre municipal waste landfill located on a 974-acre tract in Brunswick County, Virginia.  The site is owned and operated by Allied Waste Industries, and currently operates under regulations imposed by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ).  The site has two (2) primary waste disposal areas.  The Sanitary Landfill Area (SLA) is designated for municipal waste only and is a fully contained clay liner/High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane lined system.  The Northern Solid Waste Disposal Area (NSWDA) is comprised of mainly construction/ demolition waste and incinerator ash, and is also a fully contained clay/HDPE lined system.

The SLA and NSWDA disposal areas have active leachate collection systems, designed to transport leachate generated inside the landfill cells, to leachate holding tanks within the site tank farm area, where it is eventually transported via tanker trucks to local waste water treatment facilities to be properly treated for contaminants.

Portions of the disposal areas that have reached capacity have been closed with a Low Linear Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) cap liner system equipped with an active landfill gas extraction system.

Throughout the initial 13-year history of this site, Duffield Associates through its former affiliate company, CQA Services, Inc., has been on hand to perform as the site design engineering firm, construction manager, CQA inspection firm, and the soils/geosynthetics QA conformance laboratory.  Duffield Associates has worked closely with VDEQ to develop and maintain future expansion permitting and wetland mitigation which included the use of Duffield’s in-house investigative subsurface core drilling capabilities on the site’s virgin soils