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Course Outline
A Brief History of Solid Waste Management and Design (Tinjum)
- Introduction and course goals
- Evolving contaminants, risks, and opportunities
- Evolving standards-of-practice and performance based design
Keynote: Financial Management of a Solid Waste System (Welch)
- Solid waste economics
- Evolving revenue streams and value-added processes
- Planning financial outlays and tipping fee impacts
- New technologies for metrics tracking, airspace management and analysis (compaction rates, equipment usage)
- Planning for expansion (vertical and horizontal, greenfield sites
Investigating Hydrogeologic Conditions and Groundwater Monitoring (Leier-Engelhardt)
- Designing an investigation program
- Exploration methods
- Monitoring wells and analysis of groundwater data
Bower Source Investigation and Composite Liners (Tinjum)
- Properties of suitable liner/cover soil
- Compaction specifications and QA/QC
- Incorporating reasonable soil specifications
- Composite barrier systems and performance calculations
- Class Activity
Geometric Design and Liquid Management Systems (Daigle)
- Base grades
- Slopes and Berming
- Phasing
- Leachate collection systems (drainage sand/stone, drainage geosynthetics, base grades and toe drains)
- Geometrical design
- Leachate head calculations
- Pipe network, clean outs, pumps, and on-site storage
Elevated Temperature Landfill (Benson)
- Chemical and physical indicators
- Management
- Order Control
Day 2 - Designing from the Bottom Up
Geosynthetic Design for Containment Systems (Benson)
- Polymers 101
- Geosynthetic types and functions
- Contaminant transport mechanisms
- Composite barrier systems and performance calculations
Leachate Treatment (Wade)
- On-site treatment systems
- Considerating for PFAS-impacted streams
- Transport and off-site treatment options
Landfill Drainage and Runoff Control (Powers)
- Runoff amounts
- Open channel flow and culverts
- Sedimentation/detention basins
Slope Stability Approach and Calculations (Tinjum)
- Failure modes, triggering mechanisms, and factors affecting landfill system stability
- Measuring and incorporating interface values
- Calculation approached and examples
- Slope stability analysis and reporting
Management of PFAS in Leachate, Liquids, and Landfill Gasses (Lawson)
- Fate and Transport in Solid Waste Management Residuals
- Liquids Management and Treatment
- Remediation Technologies and Treatment
- Life-Cycle and Economic Assessment
Day 3 Evolving topics in Landfill Gas Operations, Management, and Regulatory Oversite (Tinjum)
- Historical perspectives, Contain-Collect-Control
- Evolving standard-of-practice
- Risks and Opportunities
Gas Collection and Managing Air Emissions (Daigle)
- Sources of landfill air emissions
- Managing landfill gas emissions
- Landfill gas generation, extraction, and collection systems
Developing a Viable Sustainability Campus and Circular Landfill (Wienkes)
- Life-Cycle Systems
- Developing a Sustainability Campus
- Opportunities to Improve the Sustainability of Waste Management
Tour of Dane County Landfill (Welch/Wienkes)
- Sustainability campus
- Gas to energy system tour
- BioCNG system tour
- Interim cover system and gas management
- UAV LFG flight demonstration
- LFG continuous stationary sensor