Degradation state of a textured HDPE geomembrane exhumed ten years after their installation on the Aldermac site, QC, Canada
Faneva Rarison, Mamert Mbonimpa, Bruno Bussiere, Abdelkabir Maqsoud, Sophie Turcotte
In the proceedings of: GeoNiagara 2021: 74th Canadian Geotechnical Conference; 14th joint with IAH-CNCABSTRACT: The southern sector of the Aldermac site, located in the Abitibi-Temiscaminque region (north-west of Quebec, Canada), was reclaimed in 2009 with a cover including a textured high-density polyethylene geomembrane (HDPE GM) constituting a barrier to water and oxygen to limit acid mine drainage generation. An exhumation campaign was carried out in summer 2019 to assess the GMs degradation state, with oxidative-induction time (OIT) measurements, and to determine the GM permeability and tensile properties. The OIT measurements showed that GM samples were still in the antioxidant depletion stage and still meet the GRI GM13 requirement. Permeability tests showed that the equivalent hydraulic conductivities of the GM samples remain very low at order of magnitude of 10-14 m/s. The tensile properties meet the requirement for a pristine textured HDPE GM with a nominal thickness of 1.5 mm. The GMs thus seem to fulfil locally their role ten years after their installation.
RÉSUMÉ: Le secteur sud du site Aldermac, situé dans la région de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue (au nord-ouest du Québec, Canada) a été restauré en 2009 avec un recouvrement incluant une géomembrane (GM) texturée en polyéthylène haute densité (PEHD) pour constituer une barrière à l’eau et à l’oxygène pour limiter la génération de drainage minier acide. Une campagne d’exhumation a été menée à l’été 2019 pour évaluer l’état de dégradation des GMs, avec la mesure des temps d’induction oxydative (TIO), leur perméabilité et leurs propriétés mécaniques en traction. Les mesures de TIO et les essais de traction ont montré que les GMs respectaient les exigences du GRI GM13 pour une GM texturée neuve en PEHD de 1.5 mm d’épaisseur. Les essais de perméabilités ont montré que la conductivité équivalente des GMs demeurait très faible : de l’ordre de 10-14 m/s. Les GM semblent ainsi remplir localement leur rôle dix ans après leur installation.
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Rarison, Faneva, Mbonimpa, Mamert, Bussiere, Bruno, Maqsoud, Abdelkabir, Turcotte, Sophie (2021) Degradation state of a textured HDPE geomembrane exhumed ten years after their installation on the Aldermac site, QC, Canada in GEO2021. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.
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