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12-Acre Sludge Cap

Industrial & Environmental Concepts Inc Lakeville, MN -

A large multi-national company closed their manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Sludge was one of the by-products of the manufacturing process. As part of the closure protocol, the company needed to cap their 12-acre sludge storage basin. The semi-liquid sludge presented characteristics that prevented traditional methodology for dewatering and capping from being used. Adding to …

Removal, transport, treatment and final disposal of sewage sludge SEP-3090 from Ecopetrol Refinery at Barrancabermeja, Colombia, S.A.

TenCate Geosynthetics Americas Pendergrass, GA - ,

The separating unit, in addition to receiving storm water waste from the industrial area also converges as "fresh" catalysts of the UOPI cracking unit, which, according to reports from the refinery operation, presents problems in the loading process of the hoppers, as well as sludge of the U-2900 water plants, by dragging or disposing of …

Treating of Drilling Fluids from Deep Tunneling Under a River in Washington, D.C.

Flint Industries Inc. Metter, GA -

In 2013, the Impregilo-Healy-Parsons joint venture was awarded a $254 million to design and build the second portion of a large tunnel system in Washington D.C., USA. The purpose of the tunneling project was to direct wastewater and storm water separately to relieve the Anacostia River from combined sewer overflows. This 12,300 linear foot (3.8km) …

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12-Acre Sludge Cap

Industrial & Environmental Concepts Inc Lakeville, MN -

A large multi-national company closed their manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Sludge was one of the by-products of the manufacturing process. As part of the closure protocol, the company needed to cap their 12-acre sludge storage basin. The semi-liquid sludge presented characteristics that prevented traditional methodology for dewatering and capping from being used. Adding to …

Chesterfield Power Plant TenCate Geotube® Dam

TenCate Geosynthetics Americas Charlotte, NC

Because of the new federal EPA regulations concerning the management of Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR), a Virginia coal fired power plant was required to start shutting down their wet fly ash lagoons. However, to keep the plant in operation as they switched from the wet process to the dry process, they were required to build …

Geosynthetic reinforced embankment for landfill expansion in Taiwan

ACE Geosynthetics Inc. Taichung City,

This huge scale landfill, located in Kaohsiung Taiwan, is constructed for rectifying the imbalance of supply and demand in environmental protection market. To be environmental friendly from inside to outside, this project applied geosynthetic materials not only to the containment barrier but also to the reinforced storage structure. The project included: 1. Wrap-around reinforced embankments …

Reinforced Soil Containment Bund for Xingfeng Landfill, China

TenCate Geosynthetics Americas Pendergrass, GA

This project involved the capacity expansion of the existing Xinfeng municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill by raising the height of existing containment bund to handle the drastic increase of daily MSW generated in Guangzhou, China. The length of the containment bund = 300m, Total max. height = 37m including 2m which is embedded below ground …

Removal, transport, treatment and final disposal of sewage sludge SEP-3090 from Ecopetrol Refinery at Barrancabermeja, Colombia, S.A.

TenCate Geosynthetics Americas Pendergrass, GA - ,

The separating unit, in addition to receiving storm water waste from the industrial area also converges as "fresh" catalysts of the UOPI cracking unit, which, according to reports from the refinery operation, presents problems in the loading process of the hoppers, as well as sludge of the U-2900 water plants, by dragging or disposing of …

Solution to Coal Ash Containment

TRI Environmental Inc. Austin, TX

This project is a coal ash landfill. The liner system components were manufactured by GSE Environmental and included, from top to bottom: 24” protective cover, 32 oz. nonwoven geotextile, 60 mil textured HDPE geomembrane, geosynthetic clay liner.

Treating of Drilling Fluids from Deep Tunneling Under a River in Washington, D.C.

Flint Industries Inc. Metter, GA -

In 2013, the Impregilo-Healy-Parsons joint venture was awarded a $254 million to design and build the second portion of a large tunnel system in Washington D.C., USA. The purpose of the tunneling project was to direct wastewater and storm water separately to relieve the Anacostia River from combined sewer overflows. This 12,300 linear foot (3.8km) …