Assessment of multiple geophysical techniques for the characterization of municipal waste deposit sites

Biodegradation; Geological surveys; Geophysics; Land fill; Moisture; Moisture determination; Surface waves; Surveys; Electrical resistivity tomography; Enhanced biodegradation; Geophysical methods; Geophysical surveys; Geophysical techniques; Material compositions; Multichannel analysis; Site rehabilitation; Deposits

Abstract :

[en] In this study, we tested the ability of geophysical methods to characterize a large technical landfill installed in a former sand quarry. The geophysical surveys specifically aimed at delimitating the deposit site horizontal extension, at estimating its thickness and at characterizing the waste material composition (the moisture content in the present case). The site delimitation was conducted with electromagnetic (in-phase and out-of-phase) and magnetic (vertical gradient and total field) methods that clearly showed the transition between the waste deposit and the host formation. Regarding waste deposit thickness evaluation, electrical resistivity tomography appeared inefficient on this particularly thick deposit site. Thus, we propose a combination of horizontal to vertical noise spectral ratio (HVNSR) and multichannel analysis of the surface waves (MASW), which successfully determined the approximate waste deposit thickness in our test landfill. However, ERT appeared to be an appropriate tool to characterize the moisture content of the waste, which is of prior information for the organic waste biodegradation process. The global multi-scale and multi-method geophysical survey offers precious information for site rehabilitation studies, water content mitigation processes for enhanced biodegradation or landfill mining operation planning. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.

Disciplines :

Geological, petroleum & mining engineering

Author, co-author :

Dumont, Gaël ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Géophysique appliquée

Robert, Tanguy ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydrogéologie & Géologie de l'environnement

Marck, Nicolas; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Géophysique appliquée > , Now at BOVA ENVIRO +, Route de Louvain-la-Neuve 4 (bte 15), Namur, 5001, Belgium

Nguyen, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Géophysique appliquée

Language :

English

Title :

Assessment of multiple geophysical techniques for the characterization of municipal waste deposit sites

Publication date :

October 2017

Journal title :

Journal of Applied Geophysics

ISSN :

0926-9851

Publisher :

Elsevier B.V.

Volume :

145

Pages :

74-83

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Name of the research project :

MINERVE

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