Capillary barrier systems represent an innovative approach to landfill cover design, utilising layered soils with contrasting hydraulic properties to regulate water infiltration. By strategically ...

Landfills are hardly a pretty thing to imagine —let alone see. However, waste management has put effort into making them look ...

While landfills may not be the first thing that comes to mind when a person thinks about the birth of civilization, these ...

DEERFIELD – Modern landfills are designed to keep the contents from going into the ground beneath, but so far none come with roofs. The lack of cover means any rain and or snow melt necessarily works ...

U.S. Forest Service officials have laid out four alternatives for capping the Meyers landfill to contain vinyl chloride gas. Water percolating through decomposing waste at the approximately 12-acre ...

Landfills are going to be here forever, so we'd better take care of them. That's the core idea that Dan Zinnen operates on. “A concept I'm trying to hopefully share with everyone at the district, and ...

Warren County's landfill has enough capacity to continue accepting trash until about 2021. A proposed 34-acre expansion would extend that lifespan through 2061, according to a permit application ...

Because the city of Hamilton owned what started as a private landfill in the 1940s, it’s on the hook for part of the remediation efforts, which could cost upwards of $400,000. Pending City Council ...

After three decades, work is coming to a close at one of the largest landfill cleanups in Washington state. On Wednesday, the Washington Department of Ecology celebrated removal of more than 35,000 ...