Faced with full water-storage basins, Europe’s largest nickel mine at Talvivaara, Finland, was challenged once more in 2012 when a tailings pond containing gypsum sediment began leaking.
Wineries around the world utilize lagoons to deposit the waste products from the wine making process. This includes the pulpy residue, known as “pomace”, and the insoluble material (or liquid sediments) known as “lees”.
A chemical plant in Texas was faced with the challenge of cleaning a hazardous waste tank every 90 days. The belt presses used for this task in the past were expensive, complicated, and unreliable .
At a fish processing plant, Geotube® dewatering technology was used to manage bloodwater wastes. A Geotube® unit was set up as part of the plant operation to capture the solid material.
Mexico’s largest chicken processing plant was experiencing high levels of BOD discharge into the local river because its two sludge lagoons were full of high percentage solids sludge.
Close to the heart of the lagoon of Venice, the industrial harbor of Marghera, contained high levels of PCB contaminated sediments, the decision was made to remove the sediments.
Zuthphen de Mars is an industrial harbor, situated between the IJssel River and the Twente canal. The city wanted to improve accessibility of the river and the harbor.
At the Fox River site, Geotube® dewatering technology is part of an operation that involves dredging and dewatering more than 750,000 cubic yards of river sediments contaminated with PCBs.
A New York City power generating plant faced a difficult problem. Sitting on the East River in Brooklyn, the plant’s cooling water intake tunnel was clogged with years of silt from the river.
A build-up of organics, sediments, very fine silt and clay created a major navigational problem for members of the Queens Lake Marina Association, in York County, VA. A contract was issued to dredge and dewater sediments .
