Handling contaminated water at the landfill just got more expensive

Handling contaminated water at the landfill just got more expensive

BRAINERD — When liquids or water, whether that may be from rain or snowmelt, makes its way through garbage at the landfill, it is contaminated, collected and given a new name — leachate. The leachate is collected in ponds and later sprayed on fields to the south. On Tuesday, March 17, Crow Wing County commissioners heard the cost to treat leachate is expected to rise for the county following changes from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. T…