oa Integrating electrical resistivity tomography and soil sampling methods to characterize a solid waste landfill area

A municipal solid waste Iandfill, located 35 Km east of Pisa (Italy), was selected to experiment the application of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) to detect and delineate the plume of contamination caused by the absence of any natural or artificial protection for the underlying confined aquifer. ERT resuits have been supported and checked against geochemical data, hydrogeological data and measurements of soil physical properties.