Potentiality of Clays in the Kharga-Dakhla Land Stretch as A Natural Landfill Liner in A Hyperarid Region

Citation:
Maghraby, A. E. M., A. E. M. Kammar, and M. S. Mabrouk, "Potentiality of Clays in the Kharga-Dakhla Land Stretch as A Natural Landfill Liner in A Hyperarid Region", Environmental Geosciences, 2011.

Abstract:

Engineered landfill liner systems are expensive to install and represent a challenge to several developing countries. Alternatively, native soils, preferentially clays, can be used as cost-effective bottom liners.The purpose of this work is to justify the reliance on the ability of the clays at the Kharga-Dakhla land stretch, Western Desert, Egypt, to act as a containment and barrier for pollutants that might be generated in a landfill leachate.

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