Municipal Solid  Waste  Landfills

Monitoring Checklist	
Final Rule: Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases

What Must Be Monitored for Each Landfill?

              Each MSW landfill must monitor these parameters...
                              United States
                              Environmental Protection
                              Agency
        Annual quantity of waste landfilled
        (Wx in Equation HH-1)
Material-specific waste quantity or
fraction, and their associated parameters
used to calculate methane generation in
Equation HH-1, including: DOC, k,
MCF, and DOCf
      Each MSW landfill using a gas collection system must also monitor
                                 these parameters...
        Flow rate of landfill gas before any
        treatment equipment (daily)

        CH4 concentration of collected
        landfill gas (daily, if available, or
        weekly)

        Temperature of landfill gas
        (daily, if available, or weekly)

        Pressure of landfill gas
        (daily, if available, or weekly)
        Moisture content of landfill gas
        (daily, if available, or weekly)
Total annual CH4 recovered prior
to destruction

Destruction device (and backup
destruction device, if applicable)
operating hours per year

Gas collection system operating hours
per year

Area, average depth of waste, and
associated estimated collection
efficiencies of areas with the different
soil type covers and gas collection
system operation listed in Table HH-3
See also the information sheet for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (EPA-430-F-09-009R) at:
www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/infosheets/mswlandfills.pdf.
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Monitoring Checklist
Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases

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                  40CFR98, subpartHH
                       September 2009

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