A Review of Lysimeter Experiments Carried Out on Municipal Landfill Waste

Abstract

The groundwater risk assessment in the vicinity of landfill sites requires, among others, representative monitoring and testing for pollutants leaching from the waste. Lysimeter studies can serve as an example of dynamic leaching tests. However, due to the bacteriological composition of the municipal waste, they are rarely carried out. These tests allow for the proper design of the landfill protection system against migration of pollutants into the ground, assessment of bacteriological, biochemical and chemical risk for the groundwater, determination of the water balance of leachate as well as examination of the course of processes taking place in the waste landfill with a diversified access to oxygen. This paper addresses the issue of performing lysimeter studies on a sample of municipal waste in various scientific centers. It analyzes the size of lysimeters, their construction, the method of water supply, the duration of the experiment, the scope of research, and the purpose of lysimeter studies.

Application of selected groundwater quality indices in anthropogenically transformed areas

“…Pollution sources such as landfills (Esmaeilian et al, 2018) and waste incineration and composting plants pose a real threat to surface and groundwater (Jousma and Roelofsen, 2004;Bhuiyan et al, 2016;Dąbrowska et al, 2018B;Dąbrowska and Witkowski, 2022;Dąbrowska and Rykała, 2021;Sołtysiak et al, 2018). This applies not only to closed landfills with no ground protection (Sołtysiak and Dąbrowska, 2016) but also to new landfills whose protection has been destroyed (Slack et al, 2005;Sun et al, 2019;Dąbrowska, 2022).…”

Two types of installation of 3D‐printed zero tension lysimeter for soil leaching and water bucket model validation

“…Lysimeters are devices that collect soil water, allowing the determination of the chemical composition of leaching water. In the past decades, lysimeters have contributed substantially to advances in soil science (Abdulkareem et al, 2015; Dabrowska & Rykala, 2021; Singh et al, 2018) and agricultural research. As a result, numerous lysimeter types and applications have been proposed, ranging from very basic water collectors to sophisticated weighing devices that allow the estimation of water drainage fluxes (Meissner et al, 2020).…”