DISCUSSIONS AND CLOSURES
Sep 1, 2001

Water Flow through Cover Soils Using Modeling and Experimental Methods

This article has a reply.
VIEW THE REPLY
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127, Issue 9
First page of PDF

Get full access to this article

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

References

1.
Aachib, M., Aubertin, M., and Chapuis, R. P. ( 1998). “Essai en colonne sur des couvertures avec effets de barrière capillaire.” Proc., 51st Can. Geotech. Conf., 2, 837–843 (in French).
2.
Aubertin, M., et al. ( 1999). “Projet sur les barrières sèches construites à partir de résidus miniers, Phase II: essais en place.” Final Rep., Proj. P1899, Rep. 2.22.2c, C.D.T., Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal (in French).
3.
Aubertin, M., Aachib, M., Monzon, M., Joanes, A.-M., Bussière, B., and Chapuis, R. P. ( 1997a). “Étude de laboratoire sur l'efficacité des barrières de recouvrement construites à partir de résidus miniers.” Final Rep., Rep. 2.22.2b, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal (in French).
4.
Aubertin, M., Bussière, B., Aachib, M., and Chapuis, R. P. ( 1996). “Une modélisation numérique des écoulements non saturés dans des couvertures multicouches en sols.” Hydrogéologie, 1, 3–13 (in French).
5.
Aubertin, M., Bussière, B., Barbera, J.-M., Chapuis, R. P., Monzon, M., and Aachib, M. ( 1997b). “Construction and instrumentation of in situ test plots to evaluate covers built with clean tailings.” Proc., 4th ICARD, Vancouver, 2, 715–730.
6.
Aubertin, M., Chapuis, R. P., Aachib, M., Bussière, B., Ricard, J.-F., and Tremblay, L. ( 1995). “Evaluation en laboratoire de barrières sèches construites à partir de résidus miniers.” Fin. Rep., Pro. P1622, Rep. 2.22.2a, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal (in French).
7.
Aubertin, M., Chapuis, R. P., Bouchentouf, A., and Bussière, B. ( 1997c). “Unsaturated flow modeling of inclined layers for the analysis of covers.” Proc., 4th ICARD, Vancouver, 2, 731–746.
8.
Bussière, B., and Aubertin, M. ( 1999). “Clean tailings as cover material for preventing acid mine drainage: an in situ experiment.” Proc., Sudbury'99: Mining and the Envir., 1, 19–28.
9.
Bussière, B., Aubertin, M., and Chapuis, R. P. ( 1999). “Étude numérique du comportement hydrique de systèmes de recouvrements inclinés visant à limiter de flux d'oxygène.” Proc., 52nd Can. Geotech. Conf., 373–380 (in French).
10.
Bussière, B., Aubertin, M., and Chapuis, R. P. ( 2000). “An investigation of slope effects on the efficiency of capillary barriers to control AMD.” Proc., ICARD 2000, Denver, 2, 969–977.
11.
Bussière, B., Aubertin, M., Morel-Seytoux, H. J., and Chapuis. R. P. ( 1998). “A laboratory investigation of slope influence on the behavior of capillary barriers.” Proc., 51st Can. Geotech. Conf., 2, 831–836.
12.
Golder Associates. ( 1999). “Monitoring of the LTA layered cover.” Final Rep., Rep. 2.22.4b, Pointe-Claire, Canada.
13.
McMullen, J., Firlotte, R., Knapp, R., and Aubertin, M. ( 1997). “Les Terrains Aurifères property site closure and rehabilitation—conceptual to construction.” Proc., 29th Ann. Mtg. of the Can. Mineral Processors, Ottawa, 274–292.
14.
Ricard, J. F., Aubertin, M., Firlotte, F. W., Knapp, R., and McMullen, J. ( 1997). “Design and construction of a dry cover made of tailings for the closure of Les Terrains Aurifères site, Malartic, Québec, Canada.” Proc., 4th ICARD, 4, 1515–1530.
15.
Ricard, J. F., Aubertin, M., McMullen, J., Pelletier, P., and Poirier, P. ( 1999). “Performance of a dry cover made of tailings for the closure of Les Terrains Aurifères site, Malartic, Québec, Canada.” Proc., Sudbury'99: Mining and the Envir., 1, 155–164.
16.
Ross, B. ( 1990). “The diversion capacity of capillary barriers.” Water Resour. Res., 26, 2625–2629.
17.
Stormont, J. C. ( 1995). “The effect of constant anisotropy on capillary barrier performance.” Water Resour. Res., 31, 783–785.
18.
Zhan, G., Mayer, A. B., McMullen, J., and Aubertin, M. ( 2001). “Slope effect study on the capillary cover design for a spent leach pad.” Proc., Tailings and Mine Waste'01, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., in press.
19.
Simms, P. H., and Yanful, E. K. ( 2000). “Challenges in modelling water flow in waste covers: lysimeter analysis.” Proc., 5th Int. Conf. on Acid Rock Drainage, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Littletown, Colo., 2, 943–949.
20.
Simms, P. H., and Yanful, E. K. ( 2001). “Measurement and estimation of soil-pore shrinkage in a clayey till during soil-water characteristics curve tests.” Can. Geotech. J., Ottawa, in press.
21.
Yang, M., and Yanful, E. K. ( 2001). “Water balance during evaporation and drainage in cover soils under different water table conditions.” Advances in Environ. Res., Elsevier, New York, in press.

Information & Authors

Information

Published In

Go to Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 127Issue 9September 2001
Pages: 810 - 812

History

Published online: Sep 1, 2001
Published in print: Sep 2001

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Authors

Affiliations

Michel Aubertin
Bruno Bussière
Lin-Pei (Choo) de-Souza
Member, ASCE
Prof., Dept. of Civ., Geological and Mining Engrg., École Polytechnique, P.O. Box 6079, Stat. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3A7.
Prof., Dept. of Appl. Sci., Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 445 Boul. Université, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada J9X 5E4.
Prof., Geotech. Res. Ctr., Dept. of Civ. and Envir. Engrg., The Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B9.
Fac. Mgr., Brookfield, LePage Johnson Control, Southwestern Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Metrics & Citations

Metrics

Citations

Download citation

If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.

Cited by

View Options

Get Access

Access content

Please select your options to get access

Log in/Register Log in via your institution (Shibboleth)
ASCE Members: Please log in to see member pricing

Purchase

Save for later Information on ASCE Library Cards
ASCE Library Cards let you download journal articles, proceedings papers, and available book chapters across the entire ASCE Library platform. ASCE Library Cards remain active for 24 months or until all downloads are used. Note: This content will be debited as one download at time of checkout.

Terms of Use: ASCE Library Cards are for individual, personal use only. Reselling, republishing, or forwarding the materials to libraries or reading rooms is prohibited.
ASCE Library Card (5 downloads)
$105.00
Add to cart
ASCE Library Card (20 downloads)
$280.00
Add to cart
Buy Single Article
$35.00
Add to cart

Get Access

Access content

Please select your options to get access

Log in/Register Log in via your institution (Shibboleth)
ASCE Members: Please log in to see member pricing

Purchase

Save for later Information on ASCE Library Cards
ASCE Library Cards let you download journal articles, proceedings papers, and available book chapters across the entire ASCE Library platform. ASCE Library Cards remain active for 24 months or until all downloads are used. Note: This content will be debited as one download at time of checkout.

Terms of Use: ASCE Library Cards are for individual, personal use only. Reselling, republishing, or forwarding the materials to libraries or reading rooms is prohibited.
ASCE Library Card (5 downloads)
$105.00
Add to cart
ASCE Library Card (20 downloads)
$280.00
Add to cart
Buy Single Article
$35.00
Add to cart

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Copy the content Link

Share with email

Email a colleague

Share