Landfill Siting and Design to Maximize Airspace

Of all of a landfill’s tangible assets, equipment, buildings, and machinery, the most significant asset is its permitted airspace.

The multi-million-dollar question is whether your landfill design is engineered to maximize airspace within specific design parameters.

While these details vary from site to site, subsurface geospatial intelligence can inform the design of a greenfield landfill or an expansion of an existing landfill, to potentially add to or take away hundreds of millions of dollars due to available airspace, from the bottom line of the landfill enterprise.

Subsurface site characterization, made possible only with MUD® SAR, identifies geologically stable locations, with suitable conditions for efficient and appropriate design that maximize airspace capacity while staying in the bounds of regulatory design requirements.

Like an x-ray of the earth, MUD® SAR subsurface monitoring technology penetrates the surface to depths of 100m to identify and locate hidden, subsurface features and geohazards that impact the landfill design and construction:

• special geometries for the landfill slopes,

• the landfill footprint placement within the terrain,

• underground water elevations,

• underlying geological structures,

• locations of underground water sources,

• depth to competent bedrock

• soil permeability and saturation

MUD® SAR landfill siting and design technology penetrates the Earth's surface to detect competent bedrock and model the top of the surface to provide a Bedrock Elevation Model.

A well-designed landfill can maximize its capacity, extend its lifespan and reduce the need for new landfill sites. 

Discover how MUD® SAR answers your multi-million-dollar question by providing new subsurface geospatial information on landfill site selection and design.

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