Beirut,
Lebanon
Reclamation of Normandy landfill to marketable land suitable
for high-end real-estate development
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Client: The Lebanese Company for the Development
and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District (SOLIDERE)
Start Date: October 1995
Completion Date: August 1999
Financing Agency:
Project Description: The Normandy dump had occupied an area of approximately 330,000m2
adjoining the coastline of Saint Georges Bay and Beirut Central
District (BCD). SOLIDERE, the company entrusted with the reclamation
of the Normandy area set the objective of the works as the
production of developable land that poses no risk to human
health, public welfare, services and the environment. Remediation/reclamation
is performed in two stages. First phase was from 1996 to 1999,
and second phase is from 1999 to 2004.
The first phase was executed directly by the SOLIDERE under
the management of Raji Maasri (Environmental Manager of MORES),
while a contractor is executing the second phase (following
the design as developed under Raji Maasri). Remediation included
attenuation barrier to control leachate, gas extraction and
treatment in the excavation face, separation of waste into
organic and non organic fractions, stabilization of the organic
fraction through composting, and/or soil thermal de-sorption.
A waste incinerator is used for the incineration of carcasses.
Tyres are shredded. Plastics are being pelletized. Rocks and
reinforced concrete is being crushed and re-used or sold.
Sorting is done through the use of either a stationary or
mobile waste processing plants. Approximately 4.5 million
m3 of clean fill material was hauled from outside the BCD.
Approximately 1.6 m3 of demolition material was brought in,
0.6 of which came from within the BCD.
