Geological conditions for allocation of solid municipal and industrial waste disposal sites in the Middle Urals

The conditions and the basic principles for the allocation of solid municipal and industrial waste (SMW and IW) disposal sites in the geological structures of the Middle Urals are considered. A typological classification of municipal solid and industrial waste disposal sites in the Middle Urals is proposed, which takes into account the factors that influence the nature of the induced processes and the risk to the environment and humans: the area and the amount of waste, waste composition, storage method, disposal conditions, water regime, the properties of underlying rocks, and the position in the region. The typological classification of SMW and IW and the zoning of geological environment in Sverdlovsk oblast is the basis for the choice of methods for predicting pollution at the sites of SMW and IW disposal as a component of monitoring the disposal sites.