GZA's extensive experience dealing with life-cycle issues at over 125 landfills, ability to assess public response, strong working relationship with regulators, thorough understanding of the myriad regulations, and ability to integrate design and permitting services has resulted in the successful permitting of numerous solid waste facilities. Such facilities include new and expanded municipal, incinerator ash, industrial, and hazardous waste landfills; transfer stations; recycling, processing, and composting facilities; and waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy plants. GZA's prominence in this field has resulted from consistently providing design services that satisfy the complex regulatory requirements and limit short- and long-term liability for facility owners/operators, while achieving substantial operational capacity. Our focus is on practical engineering solutions that not only meet our clients' needs, but are also cost-effective and environmentally sound.

GZA's Solid Waste Facility Design and Permitting services include:

• New landfills and landfill expansions
• Landfill gas to energy facilities
• Processing facilities
• Transfer stations
• Leachate management and pre-treatment systems
• Landfill gas collection and control systems
• Stormwater management systems
• Soil improvement and geotechnical instrumentation systems
• Facility infrastructure / site civil design
• Federal, state, and local permitting
• Host community agreement development support
• Community relations / public outreach