Small but beautiful!
This electronic document library is a collection of
various documents on monitoring, maps, data
management, PPC, and other related areas.
Landfill
Landfill
data management
Hydrogeological Risk Assessments for Landfills and the
Derivation of Groundwater Control and Trigger Levels
EA Guide, Monitoing landfill leachate, groundwater and
surface water (pdf, 1.0.9 mb)
DEFRA - Consultation document on the development and
implementation of a 3 year strategy to improve data
across all waste streams in the UK (pdf, 650 KB)
Online Magazine article
from Waste Age
"Is Your Landfill's
Environmental Monitoring Airtight?"
IPPC
Environment Agency - Guidance for the Landfill Sector
Technical requirements of the Landfill Directive and
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC)
Monitoring Guidance
Environment Agency - Guidance on Monitoring of Landfill
Leachate, Groundwater and Surface Water (pdf, 3.5 MB)
Of particular relevance to
monitoring data is section 3.5.5 (Data Management):
The collection of large amounts of monitoring data
necessitates the development of data management systems.
Data need to be collated in a format which allows
flexibility for data analysis and presentation whilst
safeguarding the integrity of the data. Data management
should involve means of validating and maintaining the
quality of data. For example, any data stored and
manipulated on computers need to be carefully validated
and cross-referenced against other archived paper
records and original source material (Section 10.7).
Presentation of data in tabular and graphical formats,
which are clear and intuitively
understandable to personnel unfamiliar with a particular
landfill site, is an important part of data management.
A number of computerised geographic information systems
(GIS), database and spreadsheet systems now make data
management easier, and landfill operators are encouraged
to utilise such systems for reporting purposes. Specific
technical guidance that touches upon the nature of data
management for landfills has been prepared (Environment
Agency, 2000b), while further guidance on the storage of
data and information requirements for reporting is
provided in Chapter 10 and Chapter 7 sets out additional
guidance on the use of graphical statistical methods for
representing data trends.
Australian Monitoring
and Performance guide for mine sites (pdf)
Mapping
Guide to co-ordinate systems (pdf, 750 KB)
This useful
document from the UK Ordnance Survey gives a good
explanation of maps and their co-ordinate systems.
