About this product: McGoverns analyses seem to dwell more on justifying his actions in EPA than in providing the positions of the protaganists. He sets himself up as the great neutral party but he clearly thought it was his role to determine if the Campos had proven themselves "worthy" of treatment as a government. This was a clear violation of the policy of "government to government" that the federal government had directed Mr. McGovern to follow. Some of the factual accounts and history were interesting. The California Indian history was especially interesting, but what was the relevance? It seemed that he was making the implication that the Indians were trying to put in a dump in revenge for past slights yet he puts no meat on the implication. This seems to demonstrate a prejudice he never quite overcame.
About this product: For senior/graduate level or professional training courses in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.This text addresses landfill design and construction issues in a comprehensive manner. It does this by focusing on all elements of a landfill from design to completion. The text also looks at actual, state-of-the-art construction procedures in a step-by-step manner. This is accomplished with carefully selected design equations and examples, diagrams, tables, and homework problems.
About this product: The author provides a comprehensive review of both hazardous and nonhazardous waste landfills. Detailed coverage of both NA and containment-type landfills is given. The emphasis is on practice rather than theory - examining site selections criteria, generation of leachate, characterization of waste and methods of designing gas venting systems. A discussion of landfill economics and the ways in which to retrofit NA landfills into containment form is also given, followed by an extensive bibliography.
About this product: Fourteen stories by the man N. Scott Momaday has called "the supreme ironist among American Indian writers of the twentieth century."
About this product: Using biotechnology to help control landfill processes can mitigate costs, shorten the time needed to process solid waste, and ease the typical ecological damage to the land being used. This first-of-its-kind book provides regulators, designers, landfill owners, and operators with information that supports the utility of landfill bioreactors and provides design and operating criteria essential for the successful application of this technology. It pulls together laboratory, pilot, and full-scale experiences into one concise guide to designing and running municipal landfills as bioreactors. Landfill Bioreactor Design and Operation covers the history and background of landfill technology, research studies of actual bioreactor landfills, expected leachate and gas yields, specific design criteria, operation guidelines, and reuse of landfill sites to avoid having to establish new sites. For anyone looking for an alternative to large, wasteful landfill sites, this book provides a practical alternative to the problem.
About this product: Boston's Back Bay neighborhood is well known today for its upscale residences, high-rise office buildings, fine hotels, and excellent restaurants. Extending from Arlington Street to Massachusetts Avenue, and from the Charles River to the Amtrak and MBTA tracks, the neighborhood includes Commonwealth Avenue, Newbury Street, Boylston Street, the John Hancock and Prudential towers, Copley Square, and the Charles River Esplanade. The Back Bay today contributes heavily to Boston's image as a prosperous, modern city with a rich historical legacy.
Before 1820, however, this region was a tidal marsh that appeared to early settlers as a large bay behind the town when it filled with high-tide water twice each day. Only one road, now Washington Street, extended across a narrow peninsula and connected Boston to the mainland. In the early nineteenth century, Boston expanded by filling in some shallow areas around the edge of the Back Bay. Two dams, constructed to generate power using the tides, cut off the area from the Charles River, dividing it into two basins: the "Full Basin" and the "Receiving Basin." This book focuses on filling the Back Bay's largest section, the Receiving Basin. By the 1850s, pollution of the former tidal marsh and severe overcrowding in Boston inspired plans to fill the Receiving Basin. Work on the landfill began in earnest in 1858 and was completed around 1890--and remains the largest residential and commercial landfill project ever carried out in the United States.
Opening with a look at the geological history of the Back Bay and its life as a tidal marsh, this fascinating narrative examines the roles of planners, politicians, engineers, and contractors who made it possible to dump millions of tons of sand and gravel into the marsh. Innovative new technologies were needed to excavate, move, and grade the heavy loads, and to construct substantial buildings on very soft ground. Newman and Holton tap into a wide variety of primary sources including rare maps and plans, photography collections, corporate and railroad archives, political documents, deeds, mortgages, and bankruptcy records, all of which underscore the significance of the Back Bay landfill as a central component of Boston's development from a small town to a major metropolis in the nineteenth century.
About this product: A Pioneering New Strategy for an Age-Old Problem
As technology and production escalate, the scourge of landfill waste increasingly threatens the environment. This book examines the evapotranspiration (ET) landfill cover, a new and innovative remedy for landfill waste. Offering a solution to conventional landfill, which utilize barriers to the natural flow of water and is therefore expensive and prone to failure, the ET landfill cover uses no barriers and works with the forces of nature rather than attempting to control them. The book describes the concept, technology, design, construction, and maintenance of the ET cover, and explains why it is a cost-effective, practical, easily maintained, and self-renewing biological system, which will maintain its effectiveness for centuries.
About this product: The most comprehensive design reference available on remediation techniques, waste disposal methods and various waste containment systems. Covers several important new issues such as the regulatory structure of RCRA Subtitles C and D; subsurface flow and transport of contaminants; liner systems, leachate collection and removal systems for landfills; and seismic stability analysis of landfills. Describes new waste stabilization technologies including the process of converting non-solid toxic waste into inert solids.
About this product: This guide takes a practical approach to the subject and provides an overview of regulations in the USA and Germany. It covers topics including: the individual components of candidate cover systems; examples of cross-sections of final covers on hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste and abandoned dumps; details of a water balance methodology; design examples on slope stability; elements of theory, designs and emerging systems; and related considerations and summary.
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