Alternative Title
Paper No. 10.10
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
12 Mar 1998, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Abstract
Alcanena is a municipality located in the center of Portugal where about 85% of the Portuguese tanning industries are located, representing 65% of the national production. During decades the industrial waste was disposed directly in the soil and the waste waters discharged into the river without any treatment. Following the recent Portuguese environmental policy, the national authorities decided to rehabilitate this area. First, by the construction of a waste water treatment plant (WWTP) and a impermeabilized lagoon for WWTP mud deposition, then by the construction of a landfill for deposition of the tanning scraps and, finally, when the maximum capacity of the lagoon was reached by the construction of a landfill for deposition of the pre-treated WWTP muds. In this paper special importance will be given to this landfill, to the mud pre-treatment procedures and to the air and water monitoring systems.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Pissara, L. M.; Guedes, N.; Garrido, J.; Lopes, M. L.; and Freitas, C. C., "Alcanena Industrial Waste Landfill − Description of a Portuguese Case History" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session10/1
Alcanena Industrial Waste Landfill − Description of a Portuguese Case History
St. Louis, Missouri
Alcanena is a municipality located in the center of Portugal where about 85% of the Portuguese tanning industries are located, representing 65% of the national production. During decades the industrial waste was disposed directly in the soil and the waste waters discharged into the river without any treatment. Following the recent Portuguese environmental policy, the national authorities decided to rehabilitate this area. First, by the construction of a waste water treatment plant (WWTP) and a impermeabilized lagoon for WWTP mud deposition, then by the construction of a landfill for deposition of the tanning scraps and, finally, when the maximum capacity of the lagoon was reached by the construction of a landfill for deposition of the pre-treated WWTP muds. In this paper special importance will be given to this landfill, to the mud pre-treatment procedures and to the air and water monitoring systems.
