Solid waste landfill engineering and design /
By: McBean, Edward A.
Contributor(s): Rovers, Frank A
| Farquhar, Grahame J
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Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall PTR, c1995Description: xvi, 521 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0130791873; 9780130791870 :.Subject(s): Sanitary landfills -- Design and construction | Solid waste materials DisposalDDC classification: 628.44564 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Opportunities for reduction, reuse, and recycling -- Site-selection methodologies -- Principles of decomposition in landfills -- Mass balance computational procedures in landfill assessment -- Hydrogeologic principles -- Water balance modeling for a landfill -- Landfill cover design -- Barrier layers -- Design of leachate collection systems -- Treatment of leachate -- Design of natural attenuation sites -- Landfill gas migration -- Landfill gas collection and recovery -- Construction and operation principles in landfilling -- Monitoring program concerns.
Solid waste disposal has become the focus of public awareness and concern for pollution. This book provides a synthesis of existing knowledge on solid waste landfilling, focusing on solving problems with landfill gas, managing laechate and implementing environmentally secure operating procedures.
Includes bibliographical references and index