Landfills & Impoundments

GeoSystems provides design, permitting, closure-related services, and construction monitoring services, on solid and hazardous waste landfill and impoundment projects. Particular services included the following elements:

• Landfill cap and liner system design
• Dike design for surface impoundments
• Seismic risk design
• Settlement analysis to assure that gradients of gravity-operated leachate collection systems are maintained
• Global stability and veneer stability under static and seismic loading conditions
• Deformation analysis of liner-landfill system employing Finite Element Modeling
• Construction Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) monitoring of liner, leachate collection systems, and cap system construction
• Instrumentation design, installation and monitoring for the purpose of measuring deformations and pore pressures for construction and post-construction observations of critical situations
• On-site laboratory facilities and soil testing