How to Use leachate in a Sentence

leachate

noun
Definition of leachatenext
  • In the two labs, the team exposed organisms to the particles and the leachate that comes off of them.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Nasty water, or leachate, could drain out of landfill to the treatment plant.
    — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The wells collect the leachate for treatment and disposal.
    — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
  • The leachate pulls REEs from the clay and percolates down to bedrock, where it is collected for processing.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Though the leachate was the main cause of toxicity in the two species, exposure to nanoparticles enhanced the problems.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The landfills also have leachate collection systems to capture anything that comes out of the landfill and remove it to be treated, Kohler explained.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Waste in landfills can also contaminate water if the landfills aren’t designed with leachate in mind.
    — Teen Vogue, 29 Apr. 2019
  • Most ends up piled dangerously at makeshift landfills—whose growth the PAX report also tracks—causing black leachate to leak into the groundwater, lakes, and rivers.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Around and within the foundation, drainage systems collect and pump away leachate—the toxic slurry that accumulates as rainwater seeps through the trash—toward wells at the base of the landfill.
    — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
  • This is not the leachate that collects at the bottom of bins from decaying food and condensed moisture; that’s best collected and poured into your regular compost bin, Craig said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • At Fyli, the country's largest landfill on the outskirts of Athens, bulldozers constantly reshape mountains of garbage in a quarried hillside, squeezing out a dark liquid called leachate to leave enormous stacks of brown-coated plastic.
    — Derek Gatopoulos and Theodora Tongas, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
  • At Fyli, the country’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Athens, bulldozers constantly reshape mountains of garbage in a quarried hillside, squeezing out a dark liquid called leachate to leave enormous stacks of brown-coated plastic.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Currently Arrowhead Landfill uses trucks to send its leachate – liquid waste from the mountains of household garbage – to Demopolis for treatment, a step that may no longer be necessary once the project is completed.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 27 May 2021
  • Anna O’Brien, a postgraduate student at the University of Toronto, observed tire leachate change the relationship between duckweed, a small plant that flourishes in still water, and the microbes that live on it.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Also included in the plan are four groundwater monitoring wells, as well as surface-water monitoring systems to ensure no leachate seeps out.
    — Kathleen McWilliams, Courant Community, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In the freshwater tests, the researchers found that tire particles and leachate caused developmental abnormalities.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Village staff has reviewed the new plans and still has concerns regarding the underlying landfill’s gas and leachate extraction systems, slope stability, stormwater management methods and floodplan impacts, the report indicates.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
  • Sweet!Artificial sweeteners as potential tracers of municipal landfill leachate.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2014

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