Testing and Performance Criteria for Stabilized/Solidified Waste Forms - Stabilization and Solidification of Hazardous, Radioactive, and Mixed Wastes - page 296

TABLE 11.4
Typical Examples of Tests Performed, Performance Criteria Employed, and
End Use in Some of the Commercial Projects Described in Al-Tabbaa and
Perera 106

Commercial
Project

Tests
Performed

Performance
Criteria End Use

Sealosafe plants,
1974

UCS, permeability,
durability,
leachability:
EP-Tox

Disposal

A13: Thames Avenue
to Wennington
highway scheme,
1995

Physical and
leaching tests

CBR (lower bound) -
immediately after
compaction: 3%, after 7
days: 5%
MCV prior to final
compaction: 8.5 lower
bound, 12 upper bound
28 day swell - 5 mm upper
bound

Lightweight fill for use
in embankments

Ardeer site, Scotland,
1995

Strength,
permeability, pH,
ANC

Remediation of
contaminated land for
the prevention of
further groundwater
contamination

West Drayton site,
Middlesex, 1997

Leaching tests Leaching: Dutch

Intervention Values

Redevelopment of
contaminated ground
for housing

Pumpherston site, nr
Edinburgh, 1999

Density, UCS, in
situ penetrometer

Remediation of a
contaminated site

Long Eaton site,
Nottingham, 2000

Permeability,
bearing capacity

Permeability 10 -9 m/s for
passive barrier section,
permeability of reactive
section comparable with in
situ soil, minimum bearing
capacity: 150 kPa

Remediation and
enabling works on a
contaminated site for a
new retail supermarket

Leytonstone site,
London, 2000

CBR, permeability Redevelopment of a

brownfield site for the
construction of a
school

Winterton Holme
water treatment
works site, 2000

Strength,
permeability,
leaching tests

Disposal in landfill