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    Sanitary landfills are waste disposal sites designed and operated to isolate waste from the environment until it is safe. They require engineering controls like liners, leachate collection systems, gas recovery systems, and groundwater monitoring wells. Waste is placed in cells and compacted/covered daily with soil to prevent pollution. After closure, the site requires a final cover to prevent water infiltration and gas/odor emissions, as the waste decomposes and settles over time. Proper design and operation helps ensure sanitary landfills safely contain waste and prevent environmental contamination.

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    Sanitary Landfill

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    Sanitary landfills are waste disposal sites designed and operated to isolate waste from the environment until it is safe. They require engineering controls like liners, leachate collection systems, gas recovery systems, and groundwater monitoring wells. Waste is placed in cells and compacted/covered daily with soil to prevent pollution. After closure, the site requires a final cover to prevent water infiltration and gas/odor emissions, as the waste decomposes and settles over time. Proper design and operation helps ensure sanitary landfills safely contain waste and prevent environmental contamination.

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    Sanitary landfills are waste disposal sites designed and operated to isolate waste from the environment until it is safe. They require engineering controls like liners, leachate collection systems, gas recovery systems, and groundwater monitoring wells. Waste is placed in cells and compacted/covered daily with soil to prevent pollution. After closure, the site requires a final cover to prevent water infiltration and gas/odor emissions, as the waste decomposes and settles over time. Proper design and operation helps ensure sanitary landfills safely contain waste and prevent environmental contamination.

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    Sanitary Landfill

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    Sanitary landfills are waste disposal sites designed and operated to isolate waste from the environment until it is safe. They require engineering controls like liners, leachate collection systems, gas recovery systems, and groundwater monitoring wells. Waste is placed in cells and compacted/covered daily with soil to prevent pollution. After closure, the site requires a final cover to prevent water infiltration and gas/odor emissions, as the waste decomposes and settles over time. Proper design and operation helps ensure sanitary landfills safely contain waste and prevent environmental contamination.

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    SANITARY LANDFILLS

    What are Sanitary Landfills?


    Sites where waste is isolated from the environment until it is safe.

    What are Sanitary Landfills?


    A waste disposal site designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a manner that exerts engineering control over significant potential environmental impacts arising from the development and operation of the facility (RA 9003)

    Basic Requirements
    Full or partial hydrogeological isolation Formal engineering preparations Permanent control Planned waste emplacement and covering

    Criteria for Siting


    Consistent with the overall land use plan of the LGU Accessible from major roadways and thoroughfares Adequate quantity of earth cover material that is easily handled and compacted

    Criteria for Siting


    Does not affect environmentally sensitive resources such as aquifer. Groundwater reservoir, or watershed area Large enough to accommodate the communitys wastes for a period of 5 years.

    Design Criteria
    Site
    Inexpensive land Within economically hauling distance Have year-round access At least 1500m downwind from residential and commercial neighbors Clear, level, and well drained Soil of low permeability Well above groundwater table

    Design Criteria
    Preparation
    Fencing Grading Stockpiling of cover material Landscaping Leachate collection and monitoring system Wells for gas collection

    Criteria for Establishment of Landfill


    Liners Leachate collection and treatment system Gas control recovery system Groundwater monitoring well system Cover

    Bottom Liner
    One or more layers or combination of
    Clay Plastic (HDPE: 100 mils or 1/10 of an inch thick Composite

    Landfill Liners
    6" clay 16 oz Geotextile Fabric-Polyfelt (like a wool blanket or a felt material) 60 mil High Density Polyethylene Liner (May be either smooth or textured depending on how resistant to slipping the design required, and resistant to tears, chemicals, and punctures)

    Landfill Liners
    16 oz Geotextile Fabric-Polyfelt 2 Layers of Geo Net-Drainage Netting 16 oz Geotextile Fabric-Polyfelt 60 mil High Density Polyethylene Liner 16 oz Geotextile Fabric-Polyfelt 18" of 1/2" stone containing a Network of leachate collection pipes

    Leachate
    The liquid produced when water percolates through any permeable material. It can contain either dissolved or suspended material, or usually both. Anoxic, acidic, rich in organic acid groups, sulfate ions and with high concentrations of common metal ions especially iron.

    Leachate Collection
    Pipes laid along the bottom capture contaminated water and other fluid as they accumulate

    Brought to wastewater treatment facility


    Solids are returned to the landfill

    Problems with leachate collection system


    Clogging of pipes due to
    Silt or mud; Growth of microorganisms in the pipes; Chemical reaction leading to the precipitation of minerals in the pipes; or Weakening of pipes by chemical attack then be crushed by the tons of garbage piled on them.

    Landfill Gas
    Produced from organic wastes Mainly methane

    Landfill Gas Collection System


    spaced approximately 250 feet apart to optimize gas collection consists of a combination of solid and perforated pipes and a wellhead assembly A 36-inch borehole is drilled through the waste

    Landfill Gas Collection System


    A combination of solid and perforated pipes are placed in the borehole pipe size of the gas well ranges from six inches to eight inches schedule 80 PVC pipes or SDR 17 HDPE pipes

    Landfill Gas Collection System


    washed gravel is placed around the perforated pipe and cohesive soils are placed around the solid pipe

    a bentonite plug is installed on top of the ground surface around the well

    Landfill Gas Collection System


    A wellhead assembly consists of
    sampling port for gas monitoring, temperature gauge control valve assembly to regulate the flow of landfill gas

    Landfill Gas

    Monitoring Wells

    Water Monitoring

    Cover
    A cap over the landfill to prevent leachate formation. Generally consist of several sloped layers: clay or membrane liner to prevent rain from intruding

    Cover
    Overlain by a very permeable layer of sandy or gravelly soil to promote rain runoff

    Overlain by topsoil in which vegetation can root to stabilize the underlying layers of the cover

    Cover
    Two forms
    Daily cover placed over the waste at the close of each days operation

    Final cover or cap, which is the material placed over a completed landfill to control infiltration of water, gas emission to the atmosphere and erosion

    Problems with Covers


    Erosion by natural weathering Burrowing by soil- dwelling mammals Sunlight will dry out clay or destroy membrane liners through the action of ultraviolet radiation

    Subsidence

    Cross Section Through a Sanitary Landfill

    Aerial View of a Sanitary Landfill

    Secondary Pollution from Landfills


    Water Contamination Gas Generation Offensive Odor Pest and Vectors Noise and Vibration Fire

    Prevention of Secondary Pollution


    Use cover soil Cover solid waste quickly after being unloaded Apply soil cover on the slope of waste after the last waste unloaded each day

    Benefits from Daily Application of Soil Cover


    Prevention of waste scattering. Prevention of offensive odor. Control of rodents and vectors. Prevention of fire and its spreading Improvement of landscape. Decreases in leachate generation.

    Management and Operation of Landfill


    Waste Analysis Plan before operation Monitor leachate and gas regularly, and control vectors Landfill record Management of post landfill site

    Management of Post Landfill Site


    Factors that affect timing of post landfill reuse Land subsidence speed

    Leachate quality
    Gas quality and amount Temperature of waste deposited

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