Landfill, Ground Gas & Waste Management

Private and public solid waste clients are increasingly driven to improve performance, secure value for money, achieve required returns, and optimise use of assets. At the same time, land development clients are often working at sites near former or current landfills.

Management of Landfill Gas & Hazardous Ground Gas

As a result of urbanisation and the need for development, encroachment onto and adjacent former or operational landfill locations is occurring. On many occasions, the proximity of the development to the landfill site results in the potential for an unacceptable risk to current or future occupants via migration of landfill gas or leachate/groundwater impacts.

On behalf of our clients, we identify, characterise, and remediate the areas around these developments, and we manage the implementation of mitigation systems for development adjacent to or directly on top of landfill sites. Our practitioners build comprehensive hazardous ground gas management services to help our clients meet their compliance obligations and find cost-effective and compliant solutions to manage risks for future development.

Solid Waste Engineering

Since its founding, Geosyntec has helped clients in the solid waste management industry with approvals, design, construction management, and closure of landfills, leachate and gas management systems, and waste transfer stations. Clients call on us to help them site, obtain regulatory approval, and design new solid waste disposal facilities and expand existing facilities. We work to assure that their criteria related to siting, capacity, staging, and community acceptance are met.

Solid Waste Advisory

In addition to our technical professionals, Geosyntec employs financial advisory specialists who offer a wealth of experience evaluating solid waste systems and infrastructure assets under a variety of project delivery and contracting mechanisms. To aid in their understanding of market drivers and operational issues, our advisory specialists translate technical and commercial issues into financial analyses, valuations, and support for financial models, with clear recommendations made without bias or allegiance to any vendor, service, or product.