The new-old landfill is 9.6 acres and has at least 10 feet of earth above the nearest groundwater. On top of that is 6 feet of compacted clay.

Good quality clay is defined here as clay which when worked and compacted will give a consistent permeability of less than 1 x 1 0 9m/sec. 2 More stringent demands on the quality of engineered clay ...

The liner sits in between the ground and the waste inside the landfill and consists of compacted clay, thick layers of plastic and a drainage layer.

In this video, I show you a new tool I use to break up clay and compacted soil called the Prong. I also show how to improve the clay soil and plant a fruit tree to give it the best chance of ...

The compacted waste disposal fee is now $30 per ton down from $42 and the loose disposal fee is now $32 per ton down from $51.

Workers continued placing a white plastic liner over the now-closed Tennant Way Landfill on Tuesday. The liner, which is going over a layer of clay and sand, is one of several barriers being put ...

The search effort involved approximately 10,000 hours of work, Wise said, with 30 agencies participating in the operation.

A new section of Clay County's landfill is slated to open in September, two months before the area where garbage is now dumped will be full. The advisory board for the landfill toured the facility ...

Therefore, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are developing a new type of landfill liner that improves safety while increasing capacity.

THOMASVILLE — An expansion of the Thomasville/Thomas County Municipal Solid Waste Landfill is nearing completion at the nearly 600-acre land parcel. The construction of an additional cell for ...