Landfill Gases to Energy Production in Sampson Couty, North Carolina
Sampson County, North Carolina is a pre-dominantly an agricultural based county having million hogs on farms. Traditionally, farmers in the county relied on lagoons and other stone-aged land applications for treatment of animal waste, which released methane and other harmful landfill gases in the environment. It is considerable that methane alone is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat into the environment, thus affecting the entire community around it. Another cause was the release of Nitrate through waste product accumulated in the ground level, that was potentially harming the water level in shallow wells and with ...
