Seepage from landfill sites and from animal waste storage tanks
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Published:2001
P. Purcell, M. Long, MS. Heather Scully, T. Gleeson, 2001. "Seepage from landfill sites and from animal waste storage tanks", Geoenvironmental Engineering: Geoenvironmental Impact Management: Proceedings of the third conference organized by the British Geotechnical Association and Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, and held in Edinburgh on 17–19 September 2001, R. N. Yong, H. R. Thomas
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The paper describes a laboratory study of the suitability of Irish soils for use in the lining of landfill sites and animal waste storage tanks. The soils were taken from a number of locations and are typical of those found throughout Ireland. In the paper, laboratory investigations of the flow characteristics of the soils are presented. Basic soil tests, such as, for example, particle size distribution, were found to give a good indication of the suitability of the soils for lining municipal leachate or agricultural slurry containment facilities. In addition, agricultural slurries were found to cause a very significant reduction in the effective soil permeability due to the deposition of solids on the soil surface and within the pores of the soil.
INTRODUCTION
SOIL-WATER EXPERIMENTS
SLURRY-SOIL EXPERIMENTS
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