Balancing Act (Available only in Geoenvironmental Special Issue)

by Timothy D. Stark, (M.ASCE), Assoc. Prof. of Civ. Engrg.; Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL,
W. D. Evans, (A.M.ASCE), Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Solid Waste,


Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1997, Vol. 67, Issue 8, Pg. 8A-11A


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

On March 9, 1996, at the Rumpke sanitary landfill near Cincinnati, a precariously overbuilt waste slope collapsed and more than 20 acres of waste slammed into an adjacent excavation site. The failure, involving roughly 1.5 million cu yd of solid waste, was the single largest slope failure at a U.S. municipal solid waste landfill. The incident demonstrates the importance of stability when operating and expanding grandfathered landfill slopes. An investigation shows that remedial measures can prevent waste slides at similar landfills.

Subject Headings: Landfills | Waste management | Municipal wastes | Solid wastes | Slopes | Failure analysis | Waste sites

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