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The Effect of Final Cover Installation on the Waste Landfill Stabilization

차단형 최종복토층 설치가 폐기물 매립지 안정화에 미치는 영향

  • Yoon, Seok-Pyo (Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Semyung University) ;
  • Jung, Jinmo (Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Semyung University) ;
  • Wei, Jieling (Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Semyung University)
  • 윤석표 (세명대학교 바이오환경공학과) ;
  • 정진모 (세명대학교 바이오환경공학과) ;
  • Received : 2017.03.20
  • Accepted : 2017.05.25
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

In Korea, it is required to install the final cover layer immediately after the end of use of the waste landfill, and to conduct aftercare for 30 years. However, the installation of the final cover layer minimizing the penetration of the rainfall will delay the decomposition of the buried organic wastes and reduce the amount of pollutants released into the leachate. Therefore, at the end of the aftercare period, pollutants might be discharged and cause the pollution of the surrounding environment. In this study, using lab-scale lysimeters, the amount of pollutants discharged into the leachate was observed. At the initial stage, same artificial rainfall was injected, and after 7 months later, different reduced artificial rainfall was injected for 8.4 months assuming as the final soil layer was installed. From the results, it was advantageous in terms of environmental management after the end of the aftercare period to install a temporary cover layer that permits the infiltration of rainfall to some extent rather than to install the final cover layer immediately after the end of use of the waste landfill.

우리나라는 폐기물매립지의 사용이 종료되면 즉시 차단형 최종복토층을 설치하고 30년간 사후관리를 하도록 규정하고 있다. 하지만 우수의 침투를 차단하는 최종복토층의 설치는 매립된 유기성 폐기물의 분해를 지연시키고, 침출수로 용출되는 오염물질의 양을 저감시킴에 따라 사후관리가 종료된 이후에 오염물질이 배출되어 주변을 오염시킬 우려가 있다. 본 연구에서는 실험실 규모의 모의매립조를 이용하여 약 7개월간 동일한 조건에서 인공우수를 주입한 후, 이후 8.4개월 동안 최종복토를 가정하여 매립지 내부로 유입되는 강수량을 달리한 경우에 침출수로 배출되는 오염물질의 양을 관찰하였다. 실험 결과로부터 폐기물 매립지의 사용종료 후 즉각적으로 차단형 최종복토층을 설치하는 것보다는 어느 정도 우수의 침투를 허용하는 임시복토층을 설치하는 것이 사후관리기간이 종료된 이후의 환경관리 측면에서 유리할 것으로 판단된다.

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