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The Sanitary Landfill 363
Location 1: Indianapolis, IN

Step 1: Starting the Program
● Open the program by double clicking on the HELP icon (stoplight) on your desktop
● A main menu will appear

Step 2: Entering Weather Data
A. Precipitation Data:
● Enter 1 on the main menu screen to enter/edit weather data
● Press Page Down twice on your keyboard until you see the screen titles “Weather data-
Precipitation, Temperature and Solar Radiation”
● Press <Enter> to select the highlighted default option for the precipitation data
● Use the arrows on the keyboard to select Indiana and press <Enter>
● Indianapolis will appear in the smaller box below
● Press <Enter> to select this city and return to the “Weather data” screen again

B. Temperature Data:
● Use the right arrow to select Synthetic in the Temperature box
● Press <Enter> to select the highlighted customary option, then scroll to select Indiana
and press <Enter>
● Three cities will appear in the small box, scroll down to Indianapolis and press <Enter>
● A screen title “Synthetic Temperature Data” will appear. Make sure to select the default
normal mean monthly temperature and press <Enter>

C. Solar Radiation Data:
● Use the right arrow to select the Synthetic solar radiation data
● Press <Enter> to select the highlighted customary option and scroll over to select Indiana
● Again choose Indianapolis and press Enter twice to confirm the default data

D. Evapotranspiration Data:
● Press Page Down (PgDn) to proceed to the “Weather Data-Evapotranspiration Data” screen
● Press F5 for the default evapotranspiration data
● Select Indiana, then Indianapolis and press <Enter> to enter these default data
● Specify an evaporation zone depth of 10 by scrolling to that cell and typing in the value
● Specify a maximum leaf area index of 4.2
● SAVE the changes that you have made by pressing F10 and Y (yes) for each of the menu
items – type your name into the “file” cells
● Once you have saved these changes you have finished editing the weather data and will
proceed to the next step in the simulation

Step 3: Entering the Soil Data
● Press 2 on the main menu screen to begin editing the Soil Data
● Press Page Down to create new
● Press <Enter> to select customary units
● Enter the name of your simulation project (i.e., Yourname_Simulation)
● Enter 40 acres for the landfill area and change the area to be drained to 95% and leave
the latter box with the default value by pressing Page Down
● Next, you must enter data regarding the layer and soil types for a total of five layers
● To specify the layer type move your cursor to the “layer type” cell and Press F2
● The HELP program provides a description of the different layer types and relative per-
meabilities. Read these to familiarize yourself with the different types.
● Press <escape> to return to your table and begin entering the different layers