The decomposing process of waste is usually causing significant settlements of a landfill body. From practical experience these settlements can reach from several decimeters up to several meters, depending on the dimension and composition of the landfill body. Some countries (as Germany) have the provision of a temporary landfill cover for the period after closure of a landfill fixed in the legislation. This is to ensure the geotechnical stability of the later final cover. Having in view this situation, I am interested in two questions: a) Is data available on the resulting settlements of landfill bodies from several parts of the world? and, b) in which countries is temporary landfill cover in the landfill legislation considered?
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Try England and Italy, They might have good regulations for landfills. I visited several landfill projects near London ant at North Italy.
There is a decision of sludge dewatering by bioplato technology in Leipzig ( Germany)
Now we are working this way in Kharkov ( Ukraine).
Hi, It is definitely considered in Ireland. Irish EPA has landfill manuals which you can find on http://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/waste/waste/#.VKrV4vRdVz9 if you are interested. Hope this is of help to you
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