The Duties of a Landfill CQA Engineer

The purpose of Landfill Construction Quality Assurance is to ensure that the landfill is constructed in full compliance with the specification. The primary responsibility for ensuring this, rests with the landfill construction (civil engineering) contractor. The landfill CQA Engineer who is resident on the site, provides independent inspection and verification of the work, and receives [...]

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For How Long do we Need Landfill Gas Aftercare?

The issue of how long will we need to carry on with landfill gas aftercare, is a serious one when you consider the cost of flaring and monitoring a landfill site for landfill gas production and migration, as the years go by. M. Huber-Humer states in his paper “Dwindling Landfill Gas – Relevance and Aftercare [...]

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Visit a Landfill in 2012 – A New Year’s Resolution for All Wasters!

Visit A Landfill in 2012 and Appreciate Your Environment! Hi! Happy New Year Landfill CQA-ers! What about this to contribute to your list of New Year’s Resolutions? I was under the impression that you may be interested in my passing on the contents of the e-mail below which came from a customer. I suspect that there should [...]

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Landfill Geomembrane Liners: Selection and Use

Geomembranes, or liners, are a brilliant way to stop liquid loss or contamination. Picking the right sort of geomembrane for an application could be a confusing process. When scanning the market you’ll come across a good spread of geomembrane liners. That is because of the unique wishes of numerous industries they’re used in. The sort [...]

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HDPE Landfill Liners

A secure or sanitary landfill is a carefully built and lined depression in the ground, or a landfill built on top of the ground, into which wastes are put. Whichever it is, the aim is to avoid any hydraulic connection between the wastes and the encircling environment, particularly groundwater. Essentially, a landfill is a bathtub [...]

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