Hervey Range Landfill - Cell A & C Capping

Project:	Hervey Range Landfill - Cell A & C Capping
Client:	Townsville City Council
Value:	$4.3M
​Completion:	December 2020

First project in Australia to use environmentally friendly bituminous geomembrane to ‘cap’ a landfill site.

Construction elements included:

• Subgrade preparation;
  
• Leachate interception trench and sump;
  
• Engineering fill placement to perimeter bunds;
  
• Subsurface HDPE drainage geocomposite;
  
• Perforated seepage pipe system;
  
• High strength / high flow panel drain;
  
• HDPE geonet strip drain;
  
• 300mm layer of imported cover soil; and
  
• 200mm layer of topsoil.