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Title	SITIO SAO JOAO LANDFILL: A MONITORING PROPOSAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LANDFILL MANAGEMENT
Accession No	00746495
Authors	Mahler, C F; Oliveira, FJP
Conference Title	Symposium on Recent Developments in Soil and Pavement Mechanics
Corp. Authors / Publisher	AA Balkema
Editors	ALMEIDA, M
Publication Date	19970000
Description	p. 437-445; Figures(11); References; Tables(1)
Languages	English
Abstract	The construction of landfills in almost all Brazilian cities with a population of over 200,000 inhabitants has become a problem not to be ignored by any municipal administration. Disordered waste disposal has caused serious problems whose solution should follow the knowledge and management of landfill behavior. In Brazil, practically no city performs an ordered selective control of waste collection or post-collection. In general, therefore, heterogeneous waste disposal in such places is characterized in some studies as "homogeneous" material. This paper provides some field observations from the installed instrumentation in one of the largest waste landfills in the city of Sao Paulo. Some characteristics of the material disposed on this site are also given and compared with waste material disposal in other countries. The proposal in question includes monitoring of the landfill behavior using remote control. This system consists of measuring geotechnical aspects in addition to the ongoing observation of meteorological conditions which include rainfall, temperature and evapo-transpiration. The automatic remote monitoring proposal is presented and briefly discussed.
TRT Terms	Environmental impacts ; Landfills ; Waste disposal facilities ; Waste management
Other Terms	Environmental factors; Waste disposal sites
Subject Areas	H63 MECHANICS (EARTH MASS)
ISBN	9054108851
Availability	AA Balkema Publishers Find a library where document is available Order Document: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9054108851
TRIS Files	HRIS
Database	TRIS Online

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