GEOMEMBRANE

Product description

Applications

Geomembranes have been used in the following environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic, transportation, and private development applications:

    As liners for potable water
    As liners for reserve water (e.g., safe shutdown of nuclear facilities)
    As liners for waste liquids (e.g., sewage sludge)
    Liners for radioactive or hazardous waste liquid
    As liners for secondary containment of underground storage tanks
    As liners for solar ponds
    As liners for brine solutions
    As liners for the agriculture industry
    As liners for the aquiculture industry, such as fish/shrimp pond
    As liners for golf course water holes and sand bunkers
    As liners for all types of decorative and architectural ponds
    As liners for water conveyance canals
    As liners for various waste conveyance canals
    As liners for primary, secondary, and/or tertiary solid-waste landfills and waste piles
    As liners for heap leach pads
    As covers (caps) for solid-waste landfills
    As covers for aerobic and anaerobic manure digesters in the agriculture industry
    As covers for power plant coal ash
    As liners for vertical walls: single or double with leak detection
    As cutoffs within zoned earth dams for seepage control
    As linings for emergency spillways
    As waterproofing liners within tunnels and pipelines
    As waterproof facing of earth and rockfill dams
    As waterproof facing for roller compacted concrete dams
    As waterproof facing for masonry and concrete dams
    Within cofferdams for seepage control
    As floating reservoirs for seepage control
    As floating reservoir covers for preventing pollution
    To contain and transport liquids in trucks
    To contain and transport potable water and other liquids in the ocean
    As a barrier to odors from landfills
    As a barrier to vapors (radon, hydrocarbons, etc.) beneath buildings
    To control expansive soils
    To control frost-susceptible soils
    To shield sinkhole-susceptible areas from flowing water
    To prevent infiltration of water in sensitive areas
    To form barrier tubes as dams
    To face structural supports as temporary cofferdams
    To conduct water flow into preferred paths
    Beneath highways to prevent pollution from deicing salts
    Beneath and adjacent to highways to capture hazardous liquid spills
    As containment structures for temporary surcharges
    To aid in establishing uniformity of subsurface compressibility and subsidence
    Beneath asphalt overlays as a waterproofing layer
    To contain seepage losses in existing above-ground tanks
    As flexible forms where loss of material cannot be allowed.