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Hazardous Waste Landfill: Some Lessons from New Jersey

by Peter Montague, Dept. of Chem. Engrg. and Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J.,


Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1982, Vol. 52, Issue 9, Pg. 53-56


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

There are four key elements in a secure, hazardous waste landfill: a bottom liner; a leachate collection system; a cover; and the natural hydrogeologic setting. Each of these elements is critical to success. New Jersey's experience with hazardous-waste landfills shows that synthetic liners are prone to problems�and that clay liners also have their troubles. Also, this experience shows that landfill covers are vulnerable to attack from erosion, vegetation, soil-dwelling mammals, sunlight, subsidence, and human activities. Four case histories are presented.

Subject Headings: Hazardous wastes | Landfills | Clay liners | Natural disasters | Case studies | Vegetation | Light (natural) | New Jersey | United States

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