Characterization of a dismissed landfill via electrical resistivity tomography and mise-à-la-masse method (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Characterization of a dismissed landfill via electrical resistivity tomography and mise-à-la-masse method (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.07.010 (literal)
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  • Lorenzo De Carlo, Maria Teresa Perri, Maria Clementina Caputo, Rita Deiana, Michele Vurro, Giorgio Cassiani (2013)
    Characterization of a dismissed landfill via electrical resistivity tomography and mise-à-la-masse method
    in Journal of applied geophysics
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  • Lorenzo De Carlo, Maria Teresa Perri, Maria Clementina Caputo, Rita Deiana, Michele Vurro, Giorgio Cassiani (literal)
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  • Water Research Institute (IRSA), CNR, Bari, Italy Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, Italy Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica, Università di Padova, Italy (literal)
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  • Characterization of a dismissed landfill via electrical resistivity tomography and mise-à-la-masse method (literal)
Abstract
  • Electrical resistivitymethods arewidely used for environmental applications, and they are particularly useful for the characterization and monitoring of sites where the presence of contamination requires a thorough understanding of the location and movement of water, that can act as a carrier of solutes. One such application is landfill studies, where the strong electrical contrasts between waste, leachate and surrounding formations make electrical methods a nearly ideal tool for investigation. In spite of the advantages, however, electrical investigation of landfills poses also challenges, both logistical and interpretational. This paper presents the results of a study conducted on a dismissed landfill, close to the city of Corigliano d'Otranto, in the Apulia region (Southern Italy). The landfill is located in an abandoned quarry, that was subsequently re-utilized about thirty years ago as a site for urban waste disposal. The waste was thought to be more than 20 m thick, and the landfill bottom was expected to be confined with an HDPE (high-density poli-ethylene) liner. During the digging operations performed to build a nearby new landfill, leachate was found, triggering an in-depth investigation including also non-invasivemethods. The principal goal was to verify whether the leachate is indeed confined, and to what extent, by the HDPE liner.We performed both surface electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and mise-à-la-masse (MALM) surveys, facing the severe challenges posed by the rugged terrain of the abandoned quarry complex. A conductive body, probably associated with leachate,was found as deep as 40 mbelowthe current landfill surface i.e. at a depth much larger than the expected 20 mthickness of waste. Given the logistical difficulties that limit the geometry of acquisition,we utilized synthetic forward modeling in order to confirm/dismiss interpretational hypotheses emerging from the ERT and MALM results. This integration between measurements and modeling helped narrow the alternative interpretations and strengthened the confidence in results, confirming the effectiveness of non-invasive methods in landfill investigation and the importance of modeling in the interpretation of geophysical results. (literal)
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