Section 1: PRELIMINARY DATA
1.1 Scope. This manual provides guidance to engineers for design of
disposal facilities and associated systems to handle solid waste generate
at Navy shore installations. As defined in the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Criteria for Classification of Solid Waste Disposal Facilit
and Practices, 40 CFR 257, solid waste is:
"Any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water
supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and
other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial,
mining, and agricultural operations, and from community
activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in
domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation
return flows or industrial discharges which are point-sources
subject to permits under Section 402 of the Clean Water Act, as
ended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear, or by-product
material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(68 Stat. 923)."
Hazardous wastes, as described in Subtitle C of Public Law
94-580, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), are not
discussed.
Solid wastes are typically handled and disposed of in one or more of
several ways, including shredding, baling, source separation, recycling,
composting, pyrolysis, incineration and heat recovery, and land disposal
(e.g., sanitary landfill). Ocean disposal is also permissible, although
obtaining a permit is difficult. There are currently no ocean sites
permitted for solid waste disposal.
The term "disposal" is used to identify the point where the Navy
relinquishes control of its solid waste or provides for its ultimate
disposal. Only land disposal is a practical ultimate disposal method. T
other disposal or handling systems, except ocean disposal, reduce the
initial volume of solid waste, but leave varying amounts of residues that
must be deposited in a controlled land disposal facility. This manual
addresses each of the above disposal methods, except ocean disposal, with
the emphasis on sanitary landfilling. Furthermore, the focus on landfill
is for the handling of family housing and other nonhazardous installation
wastes. The practices outlined are applicable to solid waste in general,
and the document can be used for guidance in disposing of any of the
previously mentioned solid wastes.
1.2 Cancellation. This manual, NAVFAC DM-5.10, Solid Waste Disposal,
cancels and supersedes the previous DM-5.10 manual dated October, 1979.
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