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 [...]

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Waste Strategy 2007 And Landfill Construction Safety Assurance

The Waste Strategy 2007 has been published, and yes, of course, poor old landfill gets the “worst” (least preferred option) ranking in the waste heirarchy again! Seriously though, there was never going to be any change to the requirements for landfills including the Construction Quality Assurance requirements for landfills, but we thought we would post [...]

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EHS Northern Ireland Issues Landfill Closure Guidance

NORTHERN IRELAND INTERIM GUIDANCE ON LANDFILL CLOSURE: CAPPING AND RESTORATION:  The Environmental and Heritage Service haas released Interim Guidance on Landfill Closure: Capping and Restoration for EHS staff and operators. The procedures may be applied to both existing and new landfill sites. The guidance document sets out a brief overview of the main aspects to [...]

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