Alternative Cover Assessment Program

Although the ability to minimize percolation is a performance criterion for final cover systems, limited data are available about percolation performance for final cover systems for both conventional and alternative designs. Most of the recent data on flux rates have been generated by two federal research programs, the Alternative Landfill Cover Demonstration (ALCD)84 and the Alternative Cover Assessment Program (ACAP). From these programs, flux rate performance data are available for 14 sites with demonstration-scale ET cover systems.5,39,85... 

ACAP Alternative Cover Assessment Program, a program supported by U.S. EPA ALCD Alternative Landfill Cover Demonstration, a program supported by U.S. DOE NA Not applicable. 

Alternative Cover Assessment Program Actual evapotranspiration Alternative Final Landfill Covers Alternative Landfill Cover Demonstration Department of Energy Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Evapotranspiration... 

Albright, W.H. and Benson, C.H., Alternative Cover Assessment Program 2002, Annual Report 41182, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, 2002. 

Bolen, M.M., et al., Alternative Cover Assessment Program Phase II Report, Geo Engineering Report 01-10, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, September 2001. 

Desert Research Institute, Alternative Cover Assessment Program (ACAP), 2009. Available at www. acap.dri.edu. 

Benson, C.H., Albright, W.H., Roesler, A.C., and Abichou, T., Evaluation of final cover performance Field data from the Alternative Landfill Cover Assessment Program (ACAP), Proceedings, WM 2002 Conference, Tucson, Arizona, February 24-28, 2002. 

Patient perspective is paramount because patients are the ultimate consumers of health care services. Costs from the perspective of patients are essentially what patients pay for a product or service, that is, the portion not covered by insurance. Consequences, from a patient s perspective, are the clinical effects, both positive and negative, of a program or treatment alternative. For example, various costs from a patient s perspective might include insurance copayments and out-of-pocket drug costs, as well as indirect costs, such as lost wages. This perspective should be considered when assessing the impact of... 

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