Land treatment definition

Land treatment means a technology for the intimate mixing or dispersion of wastes into the upper zone of the plant-soil system with the objective of microbial stabilization, immobilization, selective dispersion, or crop recovery leading to an environmentally acceptable assimilation of the waste.
Land treatment means the practice of applying dangerous waste onto or incorporating dangerous waste into the soil surface so that it will degrade or decompose. If the waste will remain after the facility is closed, this practice is disposal.
Land treatment means the controlled application of solid waste, excluding application of animal manure, into the surface soil to alter the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the waste.

Examples of Land treatment in a sentence

  • Land treatment cell levees must be constructed of soils which are placed and compacted in such a manner as to produce a barrier to horizontal movement of fluids.

  • Land treatment cell underdrain systems must be sampled and tested quarterly to determine the presence of mobile constituents.

  • Land treatment cell and associated surface drainage system surfaces shall at no time have an accumulation of oil of more than 1 inch at any surface location.

  • Land treatment cell levels shall be maintained with at least 2 feet of freeboard at all times.

  • Land treatment facilities that accept Waste Type 06 must meet the location criteria of §507.A.3 and the E and P Waste pretreatment and treatment criteria of §549.C.7.c and d.


More Definitions of Land treatment

Land treatment means any discharge of pollutant-containing waters being applied to the land for the purpose of treatment.
Land treatment means a structure or conservation practice that shall constitute a viable method of erosion abatement or sediment and pollution control.
Land treatment means structures or conservation practices that constitute viable methods of erosion abatement or sediment and pollution control.
Land treatment means the practice of applying ash waste onto or incorporating into the soil surface. If the waste will remain after the facility is closed, this practice is disposal.
Land treatment means the application of waste onto the soil surface or into the soil surface through incorporation. This term does not include the placement of waste in a landfill cell.
Land treatment means the controlled application of pretreated, domestic wastewater onto land surface to achieve a designed degree of treatment through natural, physical, chemical, and biological processes within the plant-soil-water matrix. Land treatment includes spray irrigation, rapid infiltration, and overland flow systems.
Land treatment means the practice of applying hazardous waste onto or incorporating hazardous waste into the soil surface so that it degrades or decomposes and renders the waste nonhazardous.