Optimal Location of Solid Waste in the City of Mosul

Abstract

This research is to identify and propose other sites for solid waste in the city of Mosul using certain variables. This study comes after what has contributed to economic and social developments accompanied this evolution is the increasing amount of waste. So that became the waste disposal problems that plague the population and the local government especially for the wealth of the damage on the health of the population and society in general.research this is an attempt to locate an optimal site for solid waste in the city of Mosul in the right side and left side according to the determinants of global site selection of solid waste in terms of identifying elements of climate and geological region. Either in relation to the determinants of the hydrological factors that ruled out of the research as a result of the lack of measurements of the fact that modern for the presence of deep groundwater in city of Mosul. as well as we examine the soil type to determine the best thickness of the soil to determine the area of solid waste. It is important that decline in determining the site of solid waste because it is an important factor is complementary to the above-mentioned factors.