Product Description: Properly constructed and carefully maintained waste containment facilities protect human health and the environment. In Waste Containment Facilities, 2nd Edition, Daniel and Koerner provide technical guidance for the complex task of ensuring construction quality control and assurance of geosynthetics used to contain waste, as well as manufacturing quality assurance and control of these materials...read more

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Product Description: This guide takes a practical approach to the subject and provides an overview of regulations in the USA and Germany. It covers topics including: The individual components of candidate cover systems Examples of cross-sections of final covers on hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste and abandoned dumps Details of a water balance methodology Design examples on slope stability Elements of theory, designs and emerging systems Related considerations and summar...read more

Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive description of recommended procedures for construction quality assurance (CQA) and control (CQC) for waste containment facilities. Chapter 1 describes the CQC/CQA process, identifies key responsibilities of individuals and organizations, and discusses the important components for proper CQC/CQA...read more

Product Description: The impact of rapid industrialization around the globe and unsafe waste management practices have become increasingly significant within the last two decades as the disclosed number of unengineered facilities and contaminated sites steadily grow and the anticipated remediation costs increase...read more

Product Description: Earth scientists and geotechnical engineers are increasingly challenged to solve environmental problems related to waste disposal facilities and cleanup of contaminated sites. The effort has given rise to a new discipline of specialists in the field of environmental geotechnology...read more