SITA Cornwall Reports Successful Landfill Works After First 12 Months

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!SITA Cornwall  News (January 2008) - reports: Improvement in compliance… Landfill
SITA Cornwall’s two landfill sites play an important role in managing the county’s waste. A great deal of work was carried out in 2007 at the landfills and even more [...]

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Does Carbonate Aggregate Really Do Any Harm in Landfill Leachate Drainage Stone?

In the design of municipal landfill leachate collection systems, some state regulatory agencies require carbonate content of leachate collection system aggregate not to exceed 15 percent by weight. This requirement comes from a legitimate concern about the possibility of aggregate degradation, or loss of mass due to contact with leachate.
Most involved in landfill design and [...]

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Rowe Environmental Completes Penultimate Capping Stage at Killurin Landfill

This summer was the second summer season, and the 4th stage of restoration capping at this Wexford County Council landfill during which Rowe Environmental provided capping construction quality assurance services.
The start of the works in June 2007 coincided with the uniqely heavy rainfall exprienced throughout the region that month. Although clay capping proceeded in between rain [...]

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What Do US Landfill Lining Systems Have Which EU Linings Don’t?

This is a question for our expert visitors.
The answer is: “Leakage Detection Layers”. We have quoted some text from a US landfill lining systems report.

“The double-composite liner system, …, consists of a primary liner overlaying a secondary liner with a leak detection layer between the two liners. Both the primary and secondary liners have two [...]

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Enviros Consulting Return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site for Restoration Works

Summer 2007 saw the environmental engineering consultants Enviros Consulting return to Wexford County Council’s Killurin Landfill Site, for further capping and restoration works.
This year sees the penultimate stage, of a 4 year involvement of Enviros with local authority Wexford County Council at this active domestic waste Landfill site.
Wexford originally commissioned Enviros back in 2004 to [...]

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