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Sciences and strategies for the long term management and remediation of landfills

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance.
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels).
  • Groundwater and groundwater control.
Other researchers

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow

Research outputs

Settlement characteristics of mechanically biologically treated wastes
A.A. Siddiqui,
W. Powrie,
& D.J. Richards
, 2013 , Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering , 139 (10) , 1676--1689
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000918
Type: article
Mechanisms of clogging in granular drainage systems permeated with low organic strength leachate
R. Nikolova-Kuscu,
W. Powrie,
& D.J. Smallman
, 2013 , Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 50 (6) , 632--649
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2012-0146
Type: article
Investigating clogging failure mechanisms of leachate extraction wells in landfills
T. Rees-White,
R.P. Beaven,
W. Powrie,
& Darren Cole
, 2013 , Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 50 (11) , 1179--1187
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2012-0478
Type: article
Catchment source contributions to the sediment-bound organic matter degrading salmonid spawning gravels in a lowland river, southern England
A.L. Collins,
L.J. Williams,
Y.S. Zhang,
M. Marius,
J.A.J. Dungait,
D.J. Smallman,
E.R. Dixon,
A. Stringfellow,
D.A. Sear,
J.I. Jones,
& P.S. Naden
, 2013 , Science of the Total Environment , 456-457 , 181--195
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.093
Type: article
Quantifying the effect of settlement and gas on solute flow and transport through treated municipal solid waste
N.D. Woodman,
A.A. Siddiqui,
W. Powrie,
A. Stringfellow,
R.P. Beaven,
& D.J. Richards
, 2013 , Journal of Contaminant Hydrology , 153 , 106--121
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2013.04.007
Type: article