{"id":132,"date":"2013-05-09T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:02:31","slug":"132-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/projects\/132-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfill barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Landfill barriers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"hydraulic-performance-of-clay-barriers-in-modern-landfills\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Hydraulic performance of clay barriers in modern landfills<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p>Composite barrier systems are used in modern landfills to isolate the landfill contents from the environment and, therefore, to provide environmental protection and prevent groundwater contamination problems. \u00a0A typical composite liner system consists of a Geosynthetic Clay Liner (GCL) or compacted clay liner (CCL) overlain by a plastic geomembrane (high density polyethylene, HDPE) to minimize the escape of contaminants from the landfill.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-400x237.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-400x237.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-160x95.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-240x142.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner-360x213.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Liner.png 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p>This project studies the long-term hydraulic performance of landfill liner systems under simulated field conditions. Extensive experimental and numerical modelling has been performed to quantify the hydration, shrinkage and hydraulic conductivity of various liner systems under simulated landfill conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/1.png\" alt=\"1\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/1.png 334w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/1-160x115.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/1-240x173.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydraulic performance of clay barriers in modern landfills &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}