Recompact Iowa Soil Materials Before Using as Liners for Waste Containment

Authors

G. J. Kluitenberg, Iowa State University
R. Horton, Iowa State UniversityFollow
M. L. Thompson, Iowa State UniversityFollow
J. F. McBride, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Research

Keywords

hazardous waste, hydraulic conductivity, solute transport, breakthrough curves

Abstract

Soil materials are often used in hazardous-waste disposal facilities to provide a physical barrier to leachate movement. Both existing soils and recompacted soil materials have been used in barrier construction. Solute transport experiments and measurements of saturated hydraulic conductivity were used to characterize the solute transport properties of three Iowa soil materials. Experiments were carried out by using undisturbed soil samples as well as recompacted samples. The experimental results show that recompaction greatly altered the solute transport properties of the three soil materials. It is concluded that recompaction is necessary for any of these materials to satisfy Environmental Protection Agency standards for barriers in hazardous-waste landfills and surface impoundments.

Publication Date

December 1988

Journal Title

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

95

Issue

4

First Page

114

Last Page

116

Copyright

© Copyright 1988 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Kluitenberg, G. J.; Horton, R.; Thompson, M. L.; and McBride, J. F. (1988) "Recompact Iowa Soil Materials Before Using as Liners for Waste Containment," Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 95(4), 114-116.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol95/iss4/4