By Christopher Sheldon
A new treatment facility will take trucks off the road and eventually save money for the county.
Monmouth County officials broke ground on a leachate pre-treatment facility on Thursday afternoon at the Monmouth County Reclamation Center in Tinton Falls.
Leachate is a byproduct of landfill and is created when precipitation falls on the landfill and combines with the moisture in the decomposing refuse.
Currently, the leachate is pumped into tanker trucks and taken to various treatment facility. The new facility will eliminate this process by treating the leachate and save the county an average of $3,900 a day.
It will cost $7.9 million to build the facility, but it is expected to pay for itself in less than two years because the county will no longer have to use the trucks to transport it to offsite treatment facilities.
Construction of the facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.
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