Landfill Redevelopment and Integrating Gas Collection – Western Regional Symposium
March 31, 2025
At the SWANA Western Regional Symposium
SWANA Western Regional Symposium will naturally feature SCSers talking landfills! We hope to see you at these sessions.
L’ is for Landfill Redevelopment – From Golf Courses to Graveyards, Adventures in Landfill Redevelopment with Vidhya Viswanathan and Ray Huff
Landfill redevelopment transforms sites into valuable community assets, such as parks, solar farms, or warehouses, addressing environmental concerns and supporting sustainable land use. This presentation explores the benefits of redevelopment, emphasizing environmental, community, and financial advantages. It also addresses technical, financial, and regulatory obstacles, with strategies for overcoming them through stakeholder collaboration, using case studies to highlight lessons learned.
Landfill Redevelopment as a Resource Management Opportunity: Redeveloping closed landfills into sustainable spaces such as parks, solar farms, and warehouses provides valuable community assets while addressing environmental issues and supporting sustainable land use.
Environmental and Community Benefits: Repurposing landfills enhances surrounding areas, improves infrastructure, and supports long-term post-closure care, offering both environmental and community advantages.
Challenges in Redevelopment: Successful landfill redevelopment faces technical, financial, and regulatory hurdles that require careful planning and execution to overcome.
Collaboration is Key: Effective redevelopment depends on collaboration among landfill owners, regulatory agencies, consultants, and contractors to navigate challenges and promote sustainable practices.
Case Studies for Learning: Reviewing successful and unsuccessful redevelopment proposals provides valuable lessons and insights into common factors contributing to successful projects.
Landfill Construction for Integrated Gas Systems with William Haley and Evan Guignon
With ever-increasing regulations pushing more and earlier methane capture, including during landfill filling, how can we design and construct our landfill cells to allow the integrated gas collection and gas collection infrastructure to be built alongside our landfill cells? This presentation will cover regulatory requirements for cell construction and gas capture and how landfills can be designed and constructed to allow the gas collection system to work in tandem with the landfill leachate collection system. We will cover several examples of integrated cell/gas collection systems and delivered performance since installation.
