A single, half-day, visit to the landfill and quarry brought up quite the variety of topics, ranging from the quarry itself, to the reason for the red colors of the cliff walls, to the uses of the gases that come out of the landfill. I still have not gotten to the details about the landfill itself, but I’ve put together a page that links all my posts about the quarry and landfill so far.
- Quarry
- Water Cycle
- Methane Gas (CH4)
- Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
- Density (and freshwater lens)
- Iron staining on the cliffs.
- The Coal Seam.
There was so much information that we spent the better part of the following week debriefing it in the middle-school science class.
The map below gives a good aerial view of the site.
View Landfill and Quarry (as of 11/26/2011) in a larger map