Select landfill equipment carefully. The amount of waste is the major variable influencing the selection of an appropriate-size machine. Safety concerns are crucial. Safety concerns are crucial. To maintain an efficient landfill operation, employees must be carefully selected, trained, and supervised.
Financial assurance is required.
Federal standards require that landfill owners and operators, including municipalities that operate landfills, have financial assurances in place to cover the costs of closure and post closure. Financial assurance is also required when corrective action is necessary to clean up releases of hazardous constituents to groundwater. Landfill closure must follow certain procedures. The primary objectives of landfill closure are to establish low-maintenance cover systems and to design a final cover that minimizes the infiltration of precipitation into the waste. This page is maintained by Mark Mehall.