Geotechnical Aspects of Landfill Design and Construction

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Summary: Good combination, yet some errors
Review: I study both geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. This book deals much more with the geotechnical aspects as is named. It doesn't contain chemical issues or any microscopic behaviors you may find in some geoenvironmental books such as Yong et al.
I kind of appreciate the authors' hard work to combine a great deal of knowledge concerning the design of landfills. There are 18 chapters, and each of em talks about every possible component of a landfill (CCLs, GCLs, GM, cover, LCS, etc.) and also some important behaviors such as settlement & stability. A chapter about vertical barriers is not available becoz this is the "landfill" book. The book uses mechanical, macroscopic, and "rule of thumb" approaches.
There are some topics missing in this book. I believe. For instance, it assumes that adsorption is not available (retardation factor equal to unity) in the liner system, and this more or less makes your design too conservative. Subsequently, becoz adsorption is neglected, you won't see the topics about batch test and column leaching test in this book. Also, the way to obtain diffusion coefficients of porous media is not presented.
So far I've gone through some chapters and found errors from place to place. Pages 19, 122,158, 162-163, etc. need corrections.
To finish in a positive way, I believe that this book is "a must" for geotechnical engineers working on landfills. If your background is purely environmental, you'd better look for some other books. And if you are a geoenvironmental engineer, the book is one of the good references for your career. But it's not a bible.