WESTON begins $7.5 million turnkey closure of City of Atlanta landfill.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1995--The City of Atlanta has awarded Roy F. Weston Inc. (WESTON), leading international environmental consultants, a $7.5 million contract to close its Gun Club Road Sanitary Landfill, it was announced Tuesday.

The 105-acre municipal landfill in Southwest Atlanta is the first in the State of Georgia to be closed on a turnkey basis. This approach can yield cost savings and schedule efficiencies by designating a single point of responsibility from design through construction, rather than as a sequence of separate jobs.

At the Gun Club Road Landfill, WESTON is responsible for all aspects of the closure project including closure design, regulatory permitting, site construction, health and safety, and community relations.

According to WESTON Vice President R. Randolph Ferguson, Gun Club Road is also one of the first municipal solid waste landfills in the nation to use the turnkey approach. "WESTON, however, has built or closed more than 500 industrial waste management facilities over the last five years using similar design and build techniques," he said.

"This method will enable the City of Atlanta to dramatically expedite the closure effort, resulting in reduced costs and an accelerated schedule," Ferguson said.

"For instance, we've been able to start construction activities simultaneously with completion of closure design -- all within 45 days of contract authorization," he said. "That's three to four times faster than the more traditional linear approach used for most public works projects."

Ferguson said that the WESTON team is integrating a wide range of professional environmental disciplines including engineering, hydrogeology, laboratory analytics, project management, quality assurance and site construction.

As part of the construction activities, WESTON will move more than one-half million cubic yards of solid waste and build a cap using 200,000 cubic yards of compacted soil and clay. WESTON will also design and install a methane gas monitoring and recovery system, and a groundwater monitoring system at the site.

The closure will comply with Subtitle D of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as well as with State of Georgia regulations. Construction is scheduled for completion in March 1996. Atlanta's Gun Club Road Sanitary Landfill opened in 1974 and operated for 20 years.

The landfill was a primary disposal site for the city's municipal solid waste, receiving as much as 1,100 tons a day. In some areas, the site is filled to a depth greater than 100 feet.

Pioneering the industry since 1957, WESTON has become a leading international environmental management, design and consulting firm working in the public and private sectors to preserve, protect and restore vital air, land and water resources.

Nearly 2,800 WESTON people specialize in analytical laboratory services, engineering, facility construction and operations, remediation and large-scale turnkey programs. Based in West Chester, Pa., WESTON has 60 offices and laboratories across the U.S. with international operations in Europe and the Asian Pacific.

WESTON has two offices in the Atlanta area and employs more than 250 environmental professionals in its seven-state Southeast Region. -0- WESTON is a registered trademark of Roy F. Weston Inc.

CONTACT: Roy F. Weston Inc., West Chester

Wayne Adams, 800/327-2090