Technical Question - Anyone built on a landfill?

Wondering if anyone has entitled or built on a capped decommissioned landfill. Specifically, what kind of environmental studies you did prior to acquisition and what kind of remediation was recommended to you. I am looking at a large site where a small portion of it was used as an onsite landfill for their manufacturing product waste (not public). I would assume you can over-excavate and re-compact new fill in lifts...but are there any other things to think about or other types of remediation?

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This may not be that helpful to you given that your question skews toward the practical realities of building over a landfill, but there's a semi-famous (if you roll in the right nerd circles of real estate) CMBS lawsuit over a Walmart built on a landfill and whether or not proper environmental due diligence was done and/or disclosed. There's other literature out there, this is just what I pulled up easily:

https://research-and-analytics.csfb.com/ura/htmlcontent/1036245431/1036…

Good luck

 

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