Concept for Surface Sealing at the Special Waste Depot of Gerolsheim

Surface sealing at the SWD-Gerolsheim has the objective of reducing the leachate regeneration rate and minimizing depot gas emission or, in other words, increasing the degree of gas capture. The selection and optimisation of the surface sealing system required is being carried out at present within the framework of the research and development project “Integrated Transferrable Research and Development Project for the Securing of the Sanitation of Special Waste Depots after the example of the Special Waste Depot at Gerols-heim/Rheinland-Pfalz” (funding — FMRT; liasion — Federal Environmental Office Berlin). The sealing systems are being investigated in test zones layed directly onto the body of the depot, in a two-stage programme involving the construction of altogether five test zones.