Detection of waste's layers with geoelectric methods: case of Rio Azul sanitary landfill, Costa Rica

 

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Auteurs: Suárez, Jorge, Zúñiga, Héctor
Format: artículo original
Statut:Versión publicada
Date de publication:2011
Description:The Río Azul Landfill received waste for 34 years from various parts of the Greater Metropolitan Area, and for three decades was operated with a poorly planned waste disposal. The purpose was to identify areas of greatest potential leachate storage, making 25 VES (Vertical Electrical Soundings), whose effective exploration depth was around 65 meters. The proposed geophysical model consists of four layers: the first corresponds to a coverage of com- pacted material (20 Ωm - 54 Ωm), the second layer contains unsaturated waste (11 Ωm - 18 Ωm), the third (1 Ωm - 5.4 Ωm) is saturated waste with leachate and the fourth (49 Ωm - 360 Ωm) the basement on which was installed the landfill. Therefore, the geoelectric allowed determining the thickness and distribution of covering materials, waste, saturated waste with leachates and depth of the basement’s top.
Pays:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Langue:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/13109
Accès en ligne:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/13109
Mots-clés:río azul
geoelectrical prospecting
geophysics
ves
leachate
waste
sanitary landfill
prospección geoeléctrica
geofísica
sev
lixiviados
desechos
relleno sanitario