Texas Municipal Solid Waste Groundwater Checklist

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality outlines safety requirements and regulations on monitoring groundwater and hazardous substances such as landfill leachate, leaking or disposed motor oil, coal ash, hazardous solid waste, organic matter, and chemicals such as sulfur compounds, perfluorooctanoic acid, heavy metals, and other groundwater pollutants. Solid waste management facilities can use the Texas Municipal Solid Waste Groundwater Checklist app as part of a solid waste management program to correctly monitor and assess groundwater safety. Discharge of chemicals from a landfill site can contaminate aquifers, groundwater supplies, drinking water, and other valuable groundwater resources. The app features a safety checklist template that can help ensure compliance with regulations to protect the water table near the landfill site to avoid contaminated groundwater. The app is divided into the following sections for review: Applicability, Groundwater Monitoring at Type IV Site, Groundwater Monitoring at Type I Sites, Groundwater Sampling and Analysis, and Status of Groundwater Monitoring Activities. Inspectors and facility safety managers can fill out the answers to checklist questions in the app, identify any violations, plan corrective action, and provide additional comments and feedback. The Texas Municipal Solid Waste Groundwater Checklist app is easy to fill out, edit, and save for facility recordkeeping.