The Frank R. Bowerman Landfill is a landfill

Landfill

A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...

 in Orange County, California

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

, opened in 1990. The landfill is located between Limestone Canyon Regional Park and Route 241

California State Route 241

State Route 241 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. For its entire run, Route 241 is a toll road. Its northern half is part of the Eastern Toll Road while its southern half is part of the Foothill Toll Road....

.It was named after Professor Frank R. Bowerman, former director of environmental engineering programs, at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, and former president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers

American Academy of Environmental Engineers

The American Academy of Environmental Engineers is a society of professional engineers who have demonstrated special expertise in environmental engineering beyond that normally required for professional practice, in a process similar to what is required for medical and other professional specialty...

 and the American Academy for Environmental Protection. Bowerman was also a technical consultant to the environmentally themed science fiction film Soylent Green

Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution,...

. It is one of the largest landfills in California, containing an estimated 31 million tons of waste. It is the site for the world’s first commercial landfill gas to liquid natural gas

Landfill gas utilization

Landfill gas utilization is a process of gathering, processing, and treating the gas to produce electricity, heat, fuels, and various chemical compounds. The number of landfill gas projects, which convert the methane gas that is emitted from decomposing garbage into power, went from 399 in 2005 to...

 project, the Bowerman Landfill Project, constructed by Prometheus Energy, an LNG fuel company based in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....

, and Montauk Energy, a capital investment firm.

External links

• Bowerman Landfill at the Orange County government website
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/jh2738401ptkx732/ "Resource recovery: An idea whose time has come", Frank Bowerman, in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Vol. 4, No. 2, 147-153, 1975
• Frank Bowerman at IMDB (consultant on the film "Soylent Green)