Leachate Treatment Solutions for Waste Facilities

Leachate isn’t one-size-fits-all. It's a highly variable industrial wastewater, created when precipitation and internal moisture percolate through waste materials in a landfill. The resulting liquid is chemically diverse and often contains elevated levels of ammonia, metals, organics, and emerging contaminants like PFAS.

Treating it effectively requires a nuanced understanding of site conditions, waste composition, and discharge requirements. That’s where RESPEC’s multidisciplinary team excels.

We provide full lifecycle support, from pilot testing and system design to construction support, optimization, and compliance monitoring. Our team has decades of experience designing systems for both on-site treatment and pre-treatment prior to discharge to municipal facilities or less frequently, deep well injection.

We can help design, implement, and monitor:

• Biological Treatment Systems: Use bacteria and microbial processes to break down organic compounds in leachate.
• Chemical Treatment Systems: Apply pH adjustments, flocculants, or other reagents to remove metals, organics, or nutrients.
• Physical Treatment Systems: Use advanced filtration methods—like reverse osmosis, foam fractionation or evaporation—to separate contaminants from water.
• PFAS-Readiness & Emerging Contaminant Strategies: Stay ahead of upcoming regulations by preparing your treatment systems for PFAS removal and advanced separation challenges.
• Pilot Testing & Bench Scale Studies: Conduct small-scale trials to verify treatment performance, select optimal technologies, and reduce risk during full-scale implementation.

Every RESPEC system is custom-engineered to match the chemistry, constraints, and compliance needs of the site. Whether your discharge route is to a POTW, surface water, or other end point, we design treatment trains that work.

Leachate management is complex—but with the right partner, it’s manageable. RESPEC brings technical depth, regulatory knowledge, and hands-on engineering experience to help your site treat wastewater efficiently, meet discharge requirements, and prepare for future challenges.

Whether you need to optimize an existing system, evaluate treatment options, or build a custom solution from the ground up, we’re ready to help you manage leachate with confidence.