Reconnaissance of the July 10, 2000, Payatas Landfill failure

Scott M. Merry; Edward Kavazanjian; Wolfgang U. Fritz

doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2005)19:2(100)

Reconnaissance of the July 10, 2000, Payatas Landfill failure

Scott M. Merry, Edward Kavazanjian, Wolfgang U. Fritz

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

Following ten days of extremely heavy rains from two typhoons, a fast moving slope failure of municipal solid waste was triggered at the Payatas Landfill, Quezon City, Philippines. The wasteslide buried more than 330 persons. Only 58 persons were rescued while, after weeks of recovery efforts, 278 bodies were recovered. This paper documents the events and circumstances that led to the failure. Beyond stating the known facts leading up to the failure, only a brief discussion of the suspected reasons for the failure is presented in this paper.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	100-107
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2005)19:2(100)
State	Published - May 1 2005

Keywords

Failures
Landfills
Landslides
Municipal wastes
Philippine Islands
Slopes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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