Treatment of a high-strength leachate from a closed co-disposal landfill site in South Africa

Water SA

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 411-418

  Percival, L J ^a   Senior, E ^a   Southway, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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