Here is the technical guidance that will help you understand the standards we want you to achieve when you design and manage a landfill site. It covers the following areas:
- waste acceptance;
- monitoring of landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water;
- landfill engineering;
- landfill gas;
- landfill permitting and surrender.
Waste acceptance
The documents below provide technical guidance on waste acceptance at landfill sites. Further information is available on the waste acceptance at landfills page.
Monitoring guidance
The documents below provide technical guidance on the monitoring of landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water within and around landfill sites:
Landfill engineering guidance
We require that proposals for landfills are designed in such a way as to protect the environment. The documents below give specific guidance on various aspects of landfill engineering:
- LFE 1 - Our approach to landfill engineering (version 1) (PDF, 10KB)
- LFE 2 - Cylinder testing geomembranes and their protective materials (version 2, updated July 2011) (PDF, 161KB)
- LFE 3 - Using geosynthetic clay liners in landfill engineering (version 1) (PDF, 20KB)
- LFE 4 - Earthworks in landfill engineering (updated February 2011) (PDF, 1.2MB)
- LFE 5 - Using geomembranes in landfill engineering (version 1) (PDF, 30KB)
- LFE 6 - Guidance on using landfill cover materials (version 1) (PDF, 20KB)
- LFE 7 - Using nonwoven protector geotextiles in landfill engineering (version 2, updated July 2011) (PDF,188KB)
- LFE 8 - Geophysical testing of geomembranes used in landfills (version 1) (PDF, 20KB)
- LFE 9 - Compliance testing earthworks on landfill sites using nuclear density gauges (version 1) (PDF, 20KB)
- LFE 10 - Using bentonite enriched soils in landfill engineering (version 1) (PDF, 30KB)
Landfill gas guidance
We require that proposals for landfills are designed in such a way as to protect the environment. The documents below give specific guidance on various aspects of landfill gas management. These are currently being revised and the updated documents should be out for consultation shortly.
- TGN 03 Guidance on the management of landfill gas (PDF, 1.1MB)
- TGN 04 Guidance on monitoring trace components in landfill gas (version 2, updated March 2011) (PDF, 444KB)
- TGN 05 Guidance for monitoring enclosed landfill gas flares (version 2, updated March 2011) (PDF, 444KB)
- TGN 06 Guidance on gas treatment technologies for landfill gas engines (version 2, updated March 2011) (PDF, 1.3MB)
- TGN 07 Guidance on monitoring landfill gas surface emissions (version 2, updated March 2011) (PDF, 830KB)
- TGN 08 Guidance for monitoring landfill gas engine emissions (version 2, updated March 2011) (PDF, 688KB)
- Guidance on landfill gas flaring (PDF, 800KB)
Guidance on the Industry code of practice on perimeter soil gas is available on our position statement page.
Landfill permitting and surrender technical guidance
The documents below provide technical guidance for the permitting of landfill sites:
- Guidance on financial provision for landfill (issued April 2011) (PDF, 187KB)
This guidance sets out our approach to managing the financial provisions requirements of the Landfill Directive. It is intended for use by applicants of landfill permits under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 and as reference for our staff.
- Financial provision spreadsheet - inert landfill (Excel, 116KB)
- Financial provision spreadsheet - hazardous and non-hazardous landfills (Excel, 61KB)
- Guidance on applying the Habitats Regulations to waste management facilities (Word, 230KB)
- H1 - Technical annex to annex (j): Hydrogeological risk assessments for landfills and the derivation of groundwater control levels and compliance limits (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Groundwater trigger levels, minimum reporting values (MRVs) and limits of detection (PDF, 260KB)
- Hydrogeological risk assessment for landfill - template for 4-yearly review (PDF, 83KB)
- The surrender of permits for the permanent deposit of waste (version 1, September 2010) (PDF, 191KB)
