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Omega Mine extends AMD treatment capacity with dewatering
At Omega Mine in West Virginia, GEOTUBE® GT500 units help the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection treat and dewater acid mine drainage from abandoned mines while supporting long-term capacity and compliance.
Dredging and reuse of contaminated sediments
Embraport used dewatered contaminated sediments as structural fill within its terminal platform, saving 400,000 m3 of imported material and reducing earthfill platform costs by 20% to 30%.
MSW incineration and power plant platform, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, China
A USD 50 million MSW incineration plant in Yuxi City uses reinforced segmental block retaining walls to form platforms in rugged terrain and process up to 1,000 tonnes of waste per day while generating electricity.
The developers of the new Summarecon Housing Estate in Bandung, the capital of Indonesia’s West Java province, were in a bind. With only seven months to go before the planned launch of their development, they needed to find a speedy solution to a soft-soil consolidation problem they had discovered.
In normal circumstances, the builders - Summarecon Bandung Ltd. - would have used the PVD pre-loading method to consolidate the soil, but their deadline didn’t allow for that. So they decided to go for a PVD vacuum-consolidation solution instead. With less surcharge loading, this method would mean that they could keep to their launch timetable and respect their go-to-market schedule.
The project required a geomembrane product that would be both durable and supple - in effect, a combination of both HDPE and LLDPE. It also needed to be large enough to cover an area of over 200,000 m². And that’s when the site engineer turned to Solmax, having decided that we were the only credible option to supply and install that quantity of geomembrane material in such a short timeframe.
Working in close collaboration with the project engineers and our local installation contractors, PT. Teknindo Geosistem Unggul, Solmax manufactured, supplied and installed 200,000 m² of our GSE® HD 1 mm Black Smooth geomembrane. Although LLDPE is considered more suitable for vacuum-consolidation applications, Solmax developed a tailor-made and project-specific GSE HD solution that met the developer’s requirements.
By deploying Solmax’s unrivalled GSE HD Black Smooth product, the developers were able to achieve full soil consolidation in just four months, thereby enabling the new development to launch on time.