Solid Waste

• Compliance Monitoring
• Regulatory Reporting
• Landfill Gas Sampling
• Landfill Gas Management
• Landfill Gas to Energy
• Leachate Management
• Post-Closure Monitoring
• Post-Closure O & M
• Coal Combustion Byproducts
• Beneficial Re-Use of Landfills

Altamont provides engineering, hydrogeology, remediation, and other specialized services for municipal and industrial landfills.  Our experience base includes older, closed facilities, as well as active industrial, construction and demolition debris, industrial, and Subtitle D landfills. 

Altamont currently monitors groundwater, surface water, and/or landfill gas at 27 privately and publicly owned landfills and monitors and maintains 10 landfill cap systems.  Our understanding of the business aspects of solid waste management, along with our technical expertise, allows us to reduce our clients’ costs related to the management of solid waste. 

Altamont’s comprehensive solid waste management consulting services include:

• Compliance Monitoring and Reporting
• Regulatory compliance planning and response
• Groundwater sampling, analysis, and reporting
• Landfill gas monitoring
• Leachate monitoring
• Design and permitting
• Technical analyses and permit applications
• Erosion and sediment control measures
• Stormwater run-on and run-off control
• Landfill closure design and construction administration
• Transfer station design
• Operations and planning
• Groundwater and landfill gas remediation system operation and maintenance
• Operation plans
• Solid waste planning (e.g. Ten-Year Plans)
• Construction management
• Contract negotiation and bid administration
• Financial analysis and budget administration
• Rate schedule analysis
• Recycling and waste minimization