Singapore's Semakau Landfill Island Profiled in NY Times
The NY Times writes: "Waiting lists for selective colleges, fine restaurants and overbooked flights are familiar enough — but Singapore may have the only landfill with a four-month wait once you sign up to visit." Read about this unique $360 million site with 4.4-mile-long sea wall and polyethylene geomembrane containment measures.
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Superfund to Solar
After five years, the cleanup operations at the Foote Mineral federal Superfund site in East Whiteland, Pennsylvania is coming to a conclusion. Site crews have finished installing a 10-acre geosynthetic cap to seal off the old lithium tailings and other pollutants. Because of concerns with root penetration into the cap, trees and shrubs will be avoided. Instead, a 2MW solar farm is planned. A brownfield's grant has already provided roughly $2.5 million towards the site reuse plan.
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CCR-Oriented GSE CoalDrain Geocomposite Earns Patent
The expansion of coal combustion residuals handling and storage work in the United States, in the wake of new regulations, has led to a strong growth in engineered materials...
Australia: Peggs Headlines Jan/Feb Liner Seminar Series
Geofabrics Australasia has confirmed dates and speakers for the multi-city geosynthetic liner seminar series it is sponsoring across Australia in January and February 2014. Dr. Ian D. Peggs, P.E.,...
Hanes Geo Components Announces Price and Company Acquisition
Hanes Geo Components, of Winston Salem, NC, announces that they have reached agreement to acquire Price and Company. Founded by John Price in 1986, Price and Company has long been recognized as a leader and pioneer in distribution services for site development contractors. Price and Company operates from two locations near Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Agru President Receives Economic Development Honor
GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA - The South Carolina Department of Commerce recently presented Robert Johnson, President of Agru America, Inc., with The Ambassador Award, presented by Governor Nikki Haley to...
Video: Pambula Merimbula Uses Polymeric Mats for Access Road
Diamond Grid has published a video story on the installation of its polymeric mat system to create an access road for Pambula Merimbula Golf Course in Australia.
At the open...
Reminder: IGS Young Members Photo Contest 2022
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Young Members Committee develops special sessions at major events, organize group activities, and host a regular photo contest. The next photo contest opportunity invites...
Underwriters Featured
The forthcoming issue of Land & Water will feature a generic article on canal lining geosynthetics. The article, "Smarter Infrastructures" by Chris Kelsey, offers a general introduction to types of liner materials.
Raven Expands Production Capacity in Midland, Texas
Raven Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAVN) is the latest geosynthetics company to announce production capacity expansion. Raven’s Engineered Films Division, which manufactures geomembranes along with various other film and...
October Preview: GeoAmericas, Sustainability, Geosynthetics
The month of October offers plenty of playoff baseball for Geosynthetica's editor to obsess over in his free time (while his wife rolls her eyes and his daughter uses...
Kent von Maubeuge to Deliver Koerner Lecture at GeoMEast 2018
For more than 25 years, Kent von Maubeuge (NAUE) has been an active member of various engineering professional associations and standards organizations (e.g., DIN, CEN, ISO, ASTM). He has...
EuroGeo 6 Abstracts Extended to November 30
The 6th European Conference on Geosynthetics (EuroGeo 6) will be held 25 – 28 September 2016 in Istanbul. With multiple IGS events having important deadlines in near proximity and other...
GIGSA Bursary Applications Due November 1
The Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA)—a chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society—has a strong history of supporting educational endeavors. The chapter’s support comes in the way of...
Asphalt Interlayer Association Releases Video Series
Asphalt interlayer technologies have contributed substantially to extending pavement service lives and reducing project costs and installation maintenance needs. To further the dialogue on these materials and applications, the...
Sacramento Seeks Statements of Interest (SOI) for Biogas Project Development
Geomembranes are used in many biogas projects, so if your company or a company in your project network has been involved in biogas development, you may be interested in this opportunity: the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in California is looking for qualified partners to help it develop and acquire biogas resources. This is not a formal request for proposals; rather, it is a request for statements of interest (SOI).
IGS Announces Reinforcement Workshop at XVI ECSMGE
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has announced a second important workshop to be held in Edinburgh alongside the 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVI ECSMGE)....
The Use of Draining Geogrids to Reinforce Clay Backfill
By Maccaferri - A unique geogrid has played an integral role in enabling a large industrial facility in Niagara (Ontario, Canada) to expand its production facility.
Stormwater and clean process water...
The Dirt Hotel That’s Cleaning Contaminated Antarctic Soils
The Australian Antarctic Division has been involved in exceptional soil remediation works at Casey Station. Fuel spills have occurred at the site over the years. Very large volumes of...
Geosynthetics in Diverse Railroad Applications
Stephen Wilk, Colin Basye, Dingqing Li, and Brad Kerchoff write on some roles for geosynthetics in railroad applications, such as for ballast pockets and flooded cuts. A version of...
GeoU 2022 Networking and Technical Tour Schedule
GeoU 2022 co-locates five high-level, geosynthetics short courses and multiple engineering networking events, 5 – 8 April 2022 in Austin, Texas. Certification exams for each of the two-day short courses will be offered...
"American-Made" Identifies Quality and Consistency for Tensar's North American Green Coir Logs
Tensar's North American Green has led the erosion control industry in offering the most complete line of high quality, performance-proven erosion control products since 1985. Today, a U.S.-manufactured addition to that line salutes a patriotic commitment and delivers quality and consistency currently unduplicated in foreign counterparts. North American Green coir logs are the only compressed coconut coir logs that are made in America.
Clockspring|NRI Brings GeoTree Legacy Brand Back to Infrastructure
In mid-2019, Clockspring|NRI acquired Milliken Infrastructure Solutions (MIS). Both companies had large portfolios with infrastructure repair-related technologies, such as pipe wrap and sleeves, epoxies, and geosynthetic cementitious composite mats...
Raven Industries Greens Downtown Sioux Falls with Planted Green Roof
Sioux Falls, SD – The renovated headquarters of Raven Industries (Nasdaq: RAVN) will soon be housed under plants. Next week, a living, planted roof will be installed as part...
What Will Be Geosynthetica’s Most-Read Articles for 2016?
As the year comes to a close, we take a closer look at the analytics to see how users have interacted with the site and to gauge our most-read...
