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Prepared by the Animal Waste Containment Committee of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. Animal Waste Containment in Lagoons provides a comprehensive view of the state-of-the-art practice of animal waste containment and gives directions for future research techniques. Topics Include: Fate of nitrogen compounds in animal waste lagoons; Seepage and transport through anaerobic lagoon liners; Clogging of animal waste lagoon liners; Evaluating seepage losses and liner performance at animal waste lagoons using water balance methods; Use of coal combustion by-products as low permeability liners for manure storage facilities; and Air quality issues associated with livestock production. Practitioners in the following disciplines: water resources, environmental, geotechnical, and agricultural engineering will find this manual to be very beneficial.

Animal waste. --- Sewage lagoons. --- Agricultural wastes --- Animals --- Lagoons --- Waste containment --- Recycling --- Waste storage --- Linings --- Water resources --- Agricultural wastes --- Animals --- Lagoons --- Waste containment --- Recycling --- Waste storage --- Linings --- Water resources

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Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE Sustainable Solid Waste Management describes basic principles and recent advances for handling solid waste in an environmentally sustainable way. Solid waste poses problems of quantity—the sheer amount is increasing around the world—but also of environmental impact, especially with the introduction of materials harmful to ecosystems. This volume uses a global lens to examine all aspects of the solid waste, including waste minimization, waste as a resource, appropriate disposal, and efficient systems fostered by effective public policy. Written by leading experts, the 22 chapters analyze the critical issues to be considered during the various stages of a waste management program. Topics include: public policies focusing on reducing waste at its source, recycling, and minimizing disposal amounts; technologies for treating and recycling solid waste; safe, efficient treatment and disposal of hazardous and other special wastes; development and maintenance of engineered landfills and landfill mining; and legal frameworks and the use of life-cycle assessment as a tool for the waste management industry. Municipal engineers, environmental managers, researchers, students, policy makers, and planners will find this book to be an essential guide to social and technological issues related to sustainable solid waste management.

Refuse and refuse disposal. --- Sustainable engineering. --- Waste treatment --- Solid wastes --- Hazardous wastes --- Recycling --- Waste management --- Construction wastes --- Waste storage --- Medical wastes --- Waste treatment --- Solid wastes --- Hazardous wastes --- Recycling --- Waste management --- Construction wastes --- Waste storage --- Medical wastes

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SCIENCE --- Earth Sciences / General --- Low level radioactive waste disposal facilities --- Hazardous waste sites --- Environmental Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Location --- Chemical landfills --- Contaminated sites --- Dumps, Toxic --- Hazardous waste disposal sites --- Hazardous waste facilities --- Superfund sites --- Toxic dumps --- LLRW disposal facilities --- LLRW disposal sites --- LLRW facilities --- LLRW storage facilities --- Low level radioactive waste disposal sites --- Low level radioactive waste facilities --- Low level radioactive waste storage facilities --- Waste disposal sites --- Radioactive waste sites

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Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) arises in the normal operation of nuclear power plants and fuel cycle facilities, as well as from the use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, industry and agriculture. This report sets out the costs of operating disposal sites for LLW in OECD countries, as well as the factors that may affect the costs of sites being developed. This publication will be of special interest to experts in the field of radioactive waste management and economics of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Radioactive waste sites. --- Radioactive waste disposal. --- Low level radioactive waste disposal facilities --- Dépôts de déchets radioactifs --- Déchets radioactifs --- Nuclear Energy --- Radioactive waste sites --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Radioactive waste repositories --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Costs --- Nuclear waste repositories --- Geological repositories --- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground --- Nuclear waste disposal --- Nuclear engineering --- Radioactivity --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Radioactive pollution --- Dumping sites, Radioactive --- Radioactive dumping sites --- Radioactive waste disposal sites --- Radioactive waste facilities --- Hazardous waste sites --- LLRW disposal facilities --- LLRW disposal sites --- LLRW facilities --- LLRW storage facilities --- Low level radioactive waste disposal sites --- Low level radioactive waste facilities --- Low level radioactive waste storage facilities --- Safety measures

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Through character development, snappy dialogue, and vivid scenes, Linked Arms tells the story of a rural people's successful struggle to keep a major nuclear dump out of Allegany County in western New York. Five times over a twelve-month period hundreds of ordinary people—merchants, teachers, homemakers, professionals, farmers, and blue collar workers—ignored potential jail terms and large fines to defy the nuclear industry and governmental authority by linking arms in the bitter cold to thwart the siting commission through civil disobedience.The hearts and minds of the resisters emerge in the narrative, as we find out why these people found civil disobedience compelling, how they organized themselves, and what moral dilemmas they addressed as they fought for their convictions. While becoming more engaged in the resistance, they confronted critical issues in contemporary America: democratic decision making, environmental policy, legal rights, corporate responsibility, and the technology of nuclear waste.Some of the book's highlights include: conversations that took place between Governor Cuomo, Assemblyman Hasper, and the protestors, which thoughtfully probe who should bear the financial burden of a failed and dangerous technology; the scientific and technological issues discussed between Ted Taylor, a nuclear physicist who was one of the key people in the Manhattan project, and the leaders of the resistance; and the citizens' initiation of a lawsuit that eventually reached the Supreme Court and abrogated the central provision in the 1987 congressional law that mandated states build low-level nuclear dumps across the country. These dialogues and vignettes illustrate how the civil disobedience and dogged determination of the people of Allegany County changed the course of history.

Nonviolence --- Civil disobedience --- Environmental protection --- Public opinion --- Low level radioactive waste disposal facilities --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Civil resistance --- Disobedience, Civil --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- LLRW disposal facilities --- LLRW disposal sites --- LLRW facilities --- LLRW storage facilities --- Low level radioactive waste disposal sites --- Low level radioactive waste facilities --- Low level radioactive waste storage facilities --- Radioactive waste sites --- Citizen participation. --- Public opinion. --- Location