Imaging is Everything 

By Randy Woods

THE IDEA OF USING costly satellite technology and NASA-level software programs to design a landfill was practically unheard of just a few years ago. However,...

crunch TIME 

By Randy Woods

THE THREE KEY INGREDIENTS to achieving optimal landfill compaction are simple and unchanging: impact force plus confinement plus moisture. It's not exactly...

Battling Birds 

Milton Knight

ALFRED HITCHCOCK KNEW 40 years ago how scary swarms of birds can be. With bird populations often exceeding 10,000, there is no question that landfill...

Looking Up 

David Leffler

WHEN OPERATORS LOOK TO EXPAND a landfill, physical restrictions can be problematic. This was the case with the Hoffman Road Landfill in Toledo, Ohio,...

WHEN FINAL CAPS FAIL 

By Benjamin Siebecker

LANDFILL FINAL COVER failures can significantly affect your pocketbook and the environment. The cover's stability involves various geotechnical soil conditions...

Low-Tech, High Hopes 

Wendy Angel Assistant Editor

MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, treated leachate from the New Hanover County, N.C., landfill was so toxic it killed at least one fat-head minnow during a state...

Working as One 

By Ann Getz Zimmerman and Terry Warner

SITING A NEW LANDFILL is almost always controversial. So when the city of Logan, Utah, was ready to site a new landfill to replace its 40-year-old municipal...

Under Wraps 

By Lynn Merrill

WITH THE HIGH COST to develop landfills, it makes considerable sense to save as much room for solid waste as possible. Daily cover material can take up...

Feeling the Flow 

John A. Banks, Project Director SCS Engineers Tampa, Fla.

GEOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTS RECENTLY became available to the industry for use as lateral drainage layers in leachate collection and removal systems (LCRS)....

Hi-Tech Blueprints 

Peter J. Hutchinson and Laura S. Barta

LANDFILL CLOSURE IS AN EXPENSIVE process for landfill operators, so cost controls are always welcome. One way to minimize expenses is to use frequency-domain...

A FLARE for SUCCESS 

By Michael Fickes

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT doesn't accurately describe what happens at more than 340 U.S. landfills that operate landfill-gas-to-energy (LFGE) systems. Those...

Saving a Slope Failure 

Scott Luettich, GeoSyntec Consultants and Steve Poggi, Waste Management

WHEN A CENTRAL MAINE LANDFILL was recently faced with having to build a new disposal cell, the project managers got creative. A 1989 landslide nearly...

Take the Credit and Run 

By Kathleen White

A SEVEN-YEAR EFFORT by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Md., to reinstate tax credits for landfill gas-to-energy (LFGE)...

LIVING AND BREATHING LANDFILL SAFETY 

By Michael Fickes

BILLY MARTIN IS ELIMINATING safety directors from Waste Management Inc. (WM) divisions nationwide. Three years ago, the Houston-based trash behemoth fielded...

RD&D Run-Down 

Patricia-Anne Tom Editor

WHILE SOME GROUPS, such as the Grassroots Recycling Network, are protesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rule allowing states to issue...

Sturdy Foundations 

Mike McLaughlin and Joe Miller SCS Engineers Reston, Va. and Pleasanton, Calif.

CLOSED LANDFILL SITES present new building opportunities. But knowing that foundation support, landfill gas (LFG) control and liner maintenance will be...

BREAKING IT DOWN 

By Mickey Cereoli

THERE'S MORE TO CONSERVING landfill space than just driving over the trash. Compaction is a word that is often used in the landfill industry, but it is...

IT'S A GAS 

BY MICHAEL FICKES

MAKING USE OF landfill gas (LFG) is not only good for the environment. In an era of rising energy costs, the gas has emerged as a way to turn trash into...

BIOREACTORS AND BEYOND 

By Michael Fickes

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECtion Agency (EPA) has finalized a long-anticipated rule permitting the transformation of qualifying landfills into bioreactors....

FOLLOWING ONE LEADER 

BY JAMES BIER

MONITORING YOUR LANDFILL and meeting today's environmental regulations can sometimes be a complex and confusing adventure. Federal, state and local laws...

Minding Landfills 

By Michael Fickes

THE RECENT RECESSION DRILLED giant holes in state and local government budgets, leading many to seek revenues through tighter enforcement of regulated...

Got My Eye on You 

Mike Hughes Hacienda Heights Improvement Association Hacienda Heights, Calif.

NEW NEIGHBORS CAN Be CHARMING and fun to share cocktails and jokes with on the weekends. But sometimes, a rowdier crowd moves in next-door, creating late...

creative containment 

By Keith Matteson, Kevin Kluzak and Dean Starook

EVEN IF IT MAY BE PROPER etiquette and environmentally mandated, controlling landfill methane gas is not always an easy thing to do. As the city of Norfolk,...

Put a Lid on It 

By Leslie Harrison

EACH NIGHT, BEFORE PUTTING a landfill to bed, operators must ensure their waste is snug and secure with a daily cover, so as not to offend the neighbors...

Gearing Up the Gas 

By Mario Iacoboni, Josephine Chow and Ed Wheless

IT'S GENERALLY DIFFICULT to get a landfill gas energy (LFGE) project going without a good supply of landfill gas (LFG). However, the County Sanitation...