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Case Studies
Industrial Fabrics designs custom dewatering and structural tube applications specific to a clients needs. Find out how ENVIROTUBES have been utilized on the following projects.
Willow Brook, Kansas City
Three very nicely landscaped storm water retention ponds located behind houses in a Kansas City suburb. The location would not allow access to the ponds with excavating equipment or trucks.
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Archie, Missouri
The city of Archie, Missouri receives its potable water supply from a small river. The river water is pumped into a primary settling pond and flows by gravity into a secondary settling pond. The river water that was filling the ponds contained sediment which reduced the capacity of the ponds, deposited organic material and created algae growth and other organic chemical problems.
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Connor Creek, Michigan
Connor Creek is a small inlet to Lake St. Clair in Michigan. It had accumulated several feet of very polluted sediment from many years of discharge from the automotive industry and a large waste water treatment facility. The sediment was to be removed from the creek, treated and land filled. The water was also to be treated.
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Louisville, Kentucky
The Louisville Gas & Electric Company is a coal burning power generating plant near Louisville, Kentucky. They had a problem in which the sludge ponds that settled out the scrubbings from the chimney were full and overflowing onto the road.
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Hendersonville, Tennessee
Constructed of Propex® Geotex® 4x6 geotextile, ENVIROTUBES were used to connect an island to shore, re-directing a tributary to flush a backwater behind the island. This was needed to wash smelly sediment out into the river.
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Pierre, South Dakota
Propex® Geotex® 4x6 geotextile ENVIROTUBES were used to connect an island to shore to create a spoil area and re-direct the channel flow to maintain a deep channel access to the city marina.
The tubes were filled with two 10 inch portable dredges. The dredged material was sediment taken from the channel that needed deepening.
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Elberta, Michigan
North Star Marina is a medium-sized marina located in Elberta, Michigan. Situated on Betsie Bay, the marina connects to the Great Lakes via the Betsie River. For several years, the bay area had been plagued with problems associated with the Great Lakes dropping water levels and increased sediment loads.
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Sea Isle City, New Jersey
A series of strong coastal storms wreaked havoc on a South Jersey shoreline, consuming a wide path of heavily vegetated dunes and more than a dozen yards of beachfront separating a three-story condominium complex from the raging sea.
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