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lixiviats

English translation: leachates

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French term or phrase:lixiviats
English translation:leachates
Entered by: Jason Willis-Lee

16:30 Jul 5, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology / European Commission responses for a environmental waste recycling project
French term or phrase: lixiviats
European Commission responses for a environmental waste recycling project...

Si le procédé n’est pas viable du fait d’une évolution réglementaire interdisant la valorisation agricole de compost issu d’OM, le compost produit sera sans doute utilisable pour revégétaliser les décharges sauvages (à moyen terme), et dans le cas extrême, ce procédé de composatge permettra de diminuer le potentiel de nuisance de cette fraction fermebtescible avant mise en décharge (pas de biogaz, moins de lixiviats)
Jason Willis-Lee
Spain
Local time: 16:26
leachates
Explanation:
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sarahl (X)
Local time: 07:26
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Thanks Sarah...
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6leachates
sarahl (X)
4lecheates/leaching waters/percolates
Francis MARC
3 +1leachates
suezen
4seepage/leachate
Anna Maria Augustine (X)


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
leachates


Explanation:
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sarahl (X)
Local time: 07:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks Sarah...

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  suezen
2 mins
  -> thanks suezen!
agree  JCEC
5 mins
  -> merci John
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
55 mins
  -> merci Gilles !
agree  AbdulHameed Al Hadidi
1 hr
  -> shukran ya Hamid!
agree  df49f (X): yes, leachates, of course (as any dico will show)... and nothing else!
1 hr
  -> eh oui, la lessive !
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
7 hrs
  -> efxaristo Vicky! ;-)
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
lecheates/leaching waters/percolates


Explanation:
Termium:
Domaine(s)
  – Waste Management
Domaine(s)
  – Gestion des déchets
Domaine(s)
  – Gestión de los desechos
leachate Source CORRECT, NOM,
NORMALISÉ

percolate Source CORRECT, NOM

leaching waters Source PLUR

lixiviat Source CORRECT, MASC

percolat Source CORRECT, MASC

eaux de lessivage Source
CORRECT, FÉM, PLUR, NORMALISÉ





DEF – Water that leaks from tipped
refuse. It can enter streams and
possibly groundwater unless the tip
is on clay or other impervious ground.
At a controlled tip water pollution can
be avoided by the heavy expense of
leading all leachate into a sewer.
Source

DEF – Liquid from a landfill
containing dissolved solids either
already in solution in the waste or
subsequently extracted and
dissolved by water passing through
it. Source

DEF – Water which has percolated
through tipped refuse or other
specified permeable material.
[Definition standardized by ISO.]
Source

OBS – leachate: term standardized
by ISO. Source

DEF – Eaux qui sont passées à
travers des décharges ou d'autres
matières perméables spécifiées.
[Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]
Source

OBS – Dans les décharges, le lixiviat
fait l'objet d'une attention particulière.
Source

OBS – eaux de lessivage : terme
normalisé par l'ISO. Sour

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 17:26
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 14
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
leachates


Explanation:
epuvaleau.fsagx.ac.be/ EPURATION%20ET%20REUTILISATION%20DES%20EAUX%20USEES.htm
Management of landfill leachates. Funded by landfill tax credits and in ... The work showed that calcium carbonate (calcite) occurs in all leachates studied ...
www.mineralsolutions.co.uk/leachate.htm

suezen
Local time: 16:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 26

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  df49f (X)
1 day 21 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
seepage/leachate


Explanation:
3)
TERM lixiviat

Reference TNC 62,Glossary of waste management,1977,Stockholm

Note {DOM} environnement:déchets solides et liquides:élimination des déchets:dépôt
{GRM} n.m.


Definition polluted water from accumulated waste at a landfill site, from compost etc., consists mainly of water which has percolated through the accumulated waste or which has been in contact with it resulting in leaching

Reference TNC 62
(1)
TERM seepage

Reference OJ S 89/7

Note {DOM} waste and polluted water:types of water
(2)
TERM leachate

Reference TNC 62

Note {DOM} waste and polluted water:types of water
EURODICAUTOM



Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 16:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
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