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Rolla, Missouri and Big Arm, Montana USA
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This book is a second edition of a 1995 design-oriented engineering handbook for components of engineered waste management facilities. Its content will be of interest to geologists who practice in the general fields siting, design, permitting and operation of sanitary landfills and other secure waste disposal sites.
The authors represent a long-term speciality of the Civil Engineering Department of Queens University, Hamilton, Ontario and their natural area of practice takes place in the most populous areas of North America, both in Canada and the United States.
The term ‘barrier’ is raised to a new umbrella level in which it is used to broadly define all manner of geotechnical components of waste management facilities that are designed and installed to exclude fluid flow out of the facility or inwardly from its surroundings. To accomplish the full scope of this book the authors employ 16 chapters, the content of the first 11 representing information that will be familiar to engineering geologists, hydrogeologists and geological engineers. Then follow four (12–15) chapters that are strictly geotechnical in content. The book is topped off by Chapter 16, Integration of Hydrogeology and Engineering in Barrier Design and Impact Assessment. Four appendices and a consolidated References list complete the book. An estimate of the currency of reference citations is that about 40 percent post-date the first edition.
All in all, for engineering geologists and hydrogeologists working in waste management, this is a valuable sole-source reference for virtually all of their participation.
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