This dissertation presents analyses of the characterization and one-dimensional consolidation tests carried out on undisturbed samples taken at different depths from a soft clay deposit located in Santa Cruz, western region of Rio de Janeiro city, in 2005 and 2008. The samples were taken from a region subjected to the loading of a 2.5 m thick embankment, built in the 1970s for the implementation of a power substation. To interpret the results of the one-dimensional consolidation tests performed on samples taken about 30 years after the landfill construction, a detailed analysis of the laboratory test data along with field geotechnical investigation data was necessary to allow estimating the in situ vertical effective stress profile when the samples were taken. Compressibility and consolidation data obtained from the one-dimensional consolidation tests are presented and discussed, as well as aspects related to the samples quality and to the reconstruction of the one-dimensional compression curves obtained from the low quality samples. In addition, an estimate of the deposit consolidation under the landfill load at the area where the samples were taken is carried out taking into account the landfill submergence effect as well as the simultaneous occurrence of the so-called primary and secondary consolidations.