Project
Youghal Landfill
Youghal Landfill
Client : Fehily Timoney, Consulting Engineers, Core House, Pouladuff, Cork
General Description
This project involved the construction of 3 new cells, leachate lagoon, administration buildings and roads infrastructure and capping of existing cells at the existing landfill facility.
Features
- Construction of 20,500 sq.m of new landfill cells
- Construction on very soft estuarine silts below tidal groundwater level using geotextiles, geogrids and rock fill
- 20,500 sq.m of HDPE membrane on 1m of low permeability clay liner to achieve 1X10-9m/s permeability
- 20,500 sq.m 0.5m – 1.0m granular leachate collection layer
- HDPE piped Leachate collection system
- Capping of 18,000 sq m of and existing landfill
- Installation of 18,000 sq.m of pozidrain gas and drainage collection geocomposites, gas control blankets, LLDPE liners & general geotextiles
- Installation of 19 gas collection and dewatering wells and HDPE gas collection and drainage pipelines
- Placing of 18,000 sq.m of low permeability subsoil capping
- Top soiling and grass seeding
- HDPE lined leachate lagoon
- Roads and site works
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