Lawrence & Associates

SOLID WASTE

At Lawrence & Associates, one of our strengths is helping our clients design, permit, and effectively operate landfills and solid-waste facilities.

Lawrence & Associates' work in solid waste developed as an offshoot of groundwater services. We began our work in solid waste through monitoring-well installation and evaluation of water quality at municipal solid-waste and industrial landfills. Since 1985, we have provided services at over 25 landfill sites including full design, inspection, and operations consulting as well as environmental review of closed sites. Through the years we have developed expertise in many aspects of landfill and waste management:

• Landfill permitting including CEQA
• compliance, permit applications,
• Joint Technical Documents,
• financial mechanisms, use permit
• revisions

• Closure cap design and testing,
• using thickened native soil clay,
• Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCL),
• High Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE),
• and low-permeability asphalt

• Base-liner design, inspection, and
• testing using clay, GCL, and HDPE

• Groundwater and vadose
• monitoring and corrective action

• Perimeter, infill, and ambient-air
• landfill gas monitoring

• Infill and perimeter gas-extraction
• system design

• Surface water monitoring, Storm
• Water Pollution Prevention Plans,
• and drainage design

• Clean closure

• Hazardous material facilities
• permitting, design, construction,
• and operation

• Transfer station permitting, design,
• and operation

We have provided our clients with numerous reports commonly required in the State of California:
	• Report of Waste Discharge (ROWD) • Technical specifications and bidding documents • Report of Disposal Site Information (RDSI) • Statistical analysis for Subtitle D and California Title • 27 requirements • Periodic Site Inspection (PSR) • Preliminary and final closure plans • Design reports • Siting Element • Operations inspection reports • Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) • Initial Emissions Report and Tier II Report for EPA • landfill emissions requirements • Solid Waste Assessment Test Reports (SWAT) for • ground water and gas

For specific examples, please see solid waste projects.