Environmental Geotechnics in Practice: Introduction and case studies

ISBN-13: 9780727763631 / Angielski

Robert Sarsby

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1. Introduction Environmental geotechnics Source-pathway-target concept 2. Waste disposal by landfill A: Technical aspects Development of landfill engineering Current practice B: Case studies Quality control during construction of Gin Hall waste disposal site (UK) The landfill gas explosion at Loscoe (UK) Groundwater contamination from Army Creek (Llangollen) landfill site (USA) The performance of composite landfill liners (Canada and USA) Slope failure of landfilled refuse at Kettleman Hills (USA) Drigg low level radioactive waste disposal site (UK) Spoil from excavation of the Channel Tunnel (UK and France) Puente hills mega-landfill (USA) 3. Contaminated and derelict land A: Technical aspects Development of remediation of land Current practice B: Case histories Rehabilitation of derelict land at Pride Park, Derby (UK) Houses built on polluted fill at Lekkerkerk (The Netherlands) Land pollution at Love Canal (USA) Bioremediation of ground at a former air-base (Poland) Land contamination at the Limehouse link site (UK) London's Olympic Park (UK) Subsidence due to collapse of old salt mine workings (Northern Ireland) Settlement of closed landfill sites (Spain and UK) Fires in closed waste dumps (USA and India) 4. Tips and lagoons A: Technical aspects Historical perspective Current practice B: Case histories Tip failure at Jupille (Belgium) The Aberfan mining waste disaster (UK) Collapse of El Cobre 'old dam' (Chile) Mining subsidence (UK) Buffalo creek disaster (USA) Deighton sludge lagoon failure (UK) Red mud slide (China) Mount Polley emptying (Canada)