{"id":174,"date":"2013-05-09T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:21:53","slug":"application-of-gcls-in-tailing-dams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/projects\/application-of-gcls-in-tailing-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"GCLs in tailings dams"},"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                        GCLs in tailings dams\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Application of geosynthetic clay liners in tailing dams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCLs are typically used as part of a barrier system in municipal solid waste landfills to minimize the escape of leachate into the surrounding environment. This project studies the possibility of using Geosynthetis Clay Liners (GCLs) as a barrier system in tailing dams to control the seepage through the dams and, hence, increase the stability of these structures.<\/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<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Tailing-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Tailing-2-400x122.png\" alt=\"Tailing 2\" class=\"wp-image-177\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Tailing-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/Tailing-1-400x115.png\" alt=\"Tailing 1\" class=\"wp-image-176\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Application of geosynthetic clay liners in tailing dams GCLs are typically used as part of a barrier system in municipal solid waste landfills to minimize the escape of leachate into the surrounding environment. This project studies the possibility of using Geosynthetis Clay Liners (GCLs) as a barrier system in tailing dams to control the seepage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":3,"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-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/470"}],"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=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/grg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}