A town is considering the uses of its former landfill. Some people want to use it as a park and others want to build office buildings and form an industrial park

Engineers advising the town council have strongly urged the group to not place any significant buildings on top of the landfill because of problems related to A) leaching.
B) settling.
C) biogas production.
D) incomplete decomposition.


B

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