Evaluation of evapotranspirative covers for waste containment in arid and semiarid regions in the southwestern USA

BR Scanlon, RC Reedy, KE Keese… - Vadose Zone …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Performance evaluation of evapotranspirative (ET) covers is critical for waste containment.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate ET covers at sites in Texas and New Mexico …

Assessing the performance of evapotranspiration covers for municipal solid waste landfills in Northwestern Ohio

KD Barnswell, DF Dwyer - Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
Evapotranspiration (ET) covers have gained considerable interest as an alternative to
conventional covers for the final closure of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, but often …

Evapotranspiration covers: An innovative approach to remediate and close contaminated sites

KL Madalinski, DN Gratton… - … Journal: The Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A new, cost-effective option for the remediation and final closure of contaminated landfill
sites gaining interest among environmental professionals is the evapotranspiration (ET) …

Evaluation of plant root on the performance of evapotranspiration (ET) cover system

MJB Alam - 2017 - mavmatrix.uta.edu
The performance of an evapotranspiration (ET) cover for a landfill exceeds that of a
conventional landfill final cover. Its low percolation and high evapotranspiration rely on the …

Analysis and design of evapotranspirative cover for hazardous waste landfill

JG Zornberg, L LaFountain… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2003 - ascelibrary.org
A site-specific unsaturated flow investigation was undertaken for the design of an
evapotranspirative (ET) cover system at the Operating Industries, Inc.(OII) Superfund landfill …

Case study of a full-scale evapotranspiration cover

PE McGuire, BJ Andraski… - Journal of geotechnical …, 2009 - ascelibrary.org
The design, construction, and performance analyses of a 6.1 ha evapotranspiration (ET)
landfill cover at the semiarid US Army Fort Carson site, near Colorado Springs, Colo. are …

Characterizing of a capillary barrier evapotranspirative cover under high precipitation conditions

W Zhang, C Sun, Q Qiu - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2016 - Springer
Capillary barrier covers are a type of evapotranspirative (ET) cover in which the water
storage capacity of an overlying finer textured soil layer is enhanced by the presence of an …

Preferential flow in a reclamation cover: hydrological and geochemical response

C Kelln, L Barbour, C Qualizza - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2007 - ascelibrary.org
Evapotranspirative covers used for waste containment or land reclamation strategies are
intended to function in perpetuity. Pedogenesis of the cover materials caused by biophysical …

Field hydrology of water balance covers for waste containment

P Apiwantragoon, CH Benson… - Journal of Geotechnical …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
A study was conducted at 12 sites across the United States to evaluate field-scale hydrology
of landfill final covers using water balance methods to control percolation. The sites were …

Effects of evapotranspiration on treatment performance in constructed wetlands: Experimental studies and modeling

DA Beebe, JW Castle, FJ Molz, JH Rodgers Jr - Ecological engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET) can affect treatment performance on constructed wetlands by
enhancing constituent transport through the hydrosoil where treatment reactions occur …