Landfill Settlement and the Construction Quality Assurance Role

The operator of a modern landfill site in responding to the requirements for minimising leachate generation is likely to fill the site rapidly within small constrained areas to reduce rainfall ingress. When the operational cell is complete to restoration levels it is likely to be capped to prevent further ingress of rain water. This means [...]

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A Landfill Construction Quality Assurance Primer

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 CQA Engineer (provided by Rowe Environmental), on site, provides independent inspection and verification of the work, and receives all the [...]

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Geophysics: What is it?

The widely used definition of geophysics is that provided by Sheriff in the Encyclopedia of Exploration Geophysics. For the purposes of this site, we refer more specifically to the following definitions – these focus on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics: Geophysics is: The subsurface site characterization of the geology, geological structure, groundwater, contamination, and human artifacts beneath [...]

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