Landfill Transformed into �Peace Park�
2012 OPAL Awards Videos
Introductions for ASCE's 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award finalists along with the acceptance speech of the winner, the Hoover Dam Bypass. Also shown are...
NYC Project Transforms Landfill into a Sprawling Recreational Oasis
NewsBriefs: Engineers Trace Methane Production in Landfills To Single Microbe (North Carolina State University)
Short Takes: Volunteer Helps D.C. Fifth Graders Construct Landfills in Fish Tanks
Design Considerations for Expansion of an Existing Landfill Over Extremely Compressible Soils
Mapping Aquifer Zones Based on Microbial Ecology and Geochemistry in a Landfill Leachate Plume with a Self Organizing Map
We implemented a self-organizing map to delineate aqueous geochemistry and microbial ecology in landfill leachate. In subsurface ecosystems microorganisms mitigate a myriad of chemical...
NewsBriefs: Reclaimed Landfill Wins Architecture Award
Modeling Fort Ord Site OU2's Remediation System Using Optimization
Fort Ord.s Site OU2 is located approximately 80 miles south of San Francisco near Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California. Fort Ord contains two landfills which were used for residential...
Structural Engineering: New Jersey Clubhouse 'Floats' on Reclaimed Landfill
Urban Planning: Park Flourishes in Ancient Cairo Landfill
In the Field: Award Recognizes Beneficial Use of Landfill Gas
NewsBriefs: Tap Into Landfills For Energy (New Scientist)
NewsBriefs: Standard Developed for Landfill Covers (ASTM International)
Under Cover
In capping a 190-acre hazardous landfill in metropolitan Los Angeles, engineers saved time and money by relying on a construction method seldom used in the environmental sector: design/build....
NewsBriefs: Overview Published on Alternative Landfill Covers (Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council)
Examining the Alternatives
A study being conducted at the variety of locations around the country is investigating whether landfill covers made of fine soils and vegetation can be just as effective as traditional...
Consolidated Effort
Engineers remedied a landfill polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls by removing the most contaminated detritus and consolidating the rest under a multilayered, impermeable cap....
Solid Waste: EPA Approves Bioreactor Landfill Test Sites
Asphalt Liner Prevents Landfill Leaks
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