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This paper will provide a 50-year perspective on vertical barriers formed from cement-bentonite; soil-bentonite, soil-attapulgite, sand-cement bentonite and plastic concrete. These barriers are commonly referred to as cutoff walls and are regularly used for the control of groundwater and/or the management of contamination. Applications include the water-tight element in dams and levees and the control of groundwater migration at contaminated sites.
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Jefferis, S. (2019). Low Permeability Vertical Barriers: The State of the Art and the Research Needs for the Future. In: Zhan, L., Chen, Y., Bouazza, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics Volume 1. ICEG 2018. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_16
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