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Instrumentation and Monitoring of a Bentonite Landfill Liner

Gary Grantham

Aspinwall and Company Ltd, Shrewsbury, England

Howard Robinson

Aspinwall and Company Ltd, Shrewsbury, England

A landfill site in northern Wales which lies only a few metres above the local water table was lined with a mixture of locally available sand and imported bentonite. To test the permeability and leachate attenuation capacity of this liner special test chambers lined with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) were constructed underneath the sand-bentonite liner and instrumented to collect samples of any infiltrating water. Over an 18-month period there has been less than 1 mm of infiltration from a completed section of the landfill into the test chambers. No evidence of contamination of the groundwater by the landfill has been detected in test wells. The sampling continues.

Key Words: Landfill • liners • bentonite • leachate measurement • groundwater integrity • U.K.

Waste Management & Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, 125-139 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X8800600122
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