PERFORMANCE OF GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS IN COVER, SUBSURFACE BARRIER, AND BASAL LINER APPLICATIONS

• Main Author: Hosney, Mohamed
• Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: concrete; landfills; sewage treatment lagoons; interface transmissivity; covers; cation exchange; hydraulic conductivity; geosynthetic clay liner; arsenic contamination; wet-dry cycles; gold mine tailings; jet fuel contamination; Arctic; The Needle
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8641

The use of geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) as (i) covers for arsenic-rich gold mine tailings and landfills, (ii) subsurface barrier for migration of hydrocarbons in the Arctic, and (iii) basal liner for sewage treatment lagoons were examined. After 4 years in field and laboratory experiments, it was...