silt control News
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Oil Stop Aids California Firefighting Effort
In August 2020 the Oil Stop Division of AMPOL shipped its new model SFB18TT containment boom to California to aid the firefighting effort. One of the tools commonly used in fighting forest fires is “Bambi” buckets under-slung from helicopters. The helicopter crew will use local rivers as a water source to scoop up water and deploy it to the fire ...
By AMPOL
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ASTM D5141 - 11 standard test method for determining filtering efficiency and flow rate of the filtration component of a sediment retention device
This test method is used to determine the filtering efficiency and flow rate of the filtration component of a sediment retention device, such as a silt fence, a silt barrier, or a silt curtain, for specific soil tested. This test method may be used for the design of the filtration component of a ...
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Ecosystem solutions to cope with Philippine flood disasters
By Pieter van Eijk Enormous logs float by while we navigate the Agusan river on Mindanao, the second largest island of the Philippines. A silent testimony of decades of ravaging sawmills and chainsaws that denuded most of the archipelago's once virgin hill slopes. The noisy motor of our boat stirs up a deeply brown-coloured mixture of water and sediment. Two decades ago, local ...
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Dominion settles clean water act violations at equestrian estates
Dominion will pay a $51,000 penalty for allegedly allowing storm water runoff from Equestrian Estates North in Chesapeake Va., to run off into a tributary of the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River. After an inspection by EPA on June 14, 2010, and another inspection by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation on December 14, 2010, EPA cited Dominion for failing to: Stabilize ...
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Turbidity curtain: granite environmental ensures turbidity barrier availablility
Granite Environmental, LLC , located on the East Coast of Florida, is pleased to announce that it, together with its contracted manufacturers, ensures the turbidity barrier and curtain availability for dregding jobs, marine construction projects, pile driving and site work (stormwater sheetflow) activities globally, but especially in the United States of America. Granite Environmental, LLC. (GEI) ...
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EPA Enforcement Ensures that Solar Company Follows Stormwater Discharge Requirements at Warren, Mass. Facility
A settlement signed recently by a company that builds solar power facilities in Massachusetts will remind construction companies that the US Environmental Protection Agency continues to protect the environment from illegal discharges of stormwater. Borrego Solar Systems, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., will pay a $90,000 penalty, settling EPA claims that it failed to follow requirements for ...
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“Granite Environmental LLC successfully completed the Florida stormwater and sedimentation control inspector training program”
Two employees of Granite Environmental, LLC (GEI) participated and successfully completed the Florida Stormwater and Sedimentation Control Inspector Training Program in November 2009. In this two day, graded class, sponsored by the Brevard County Natural Resources Management Office Stormwater Program and the Agriculture and Extension Services Department, both employees received a beneficial ...
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“Granite Environmental LLC has recently added a new market field to its environmental product variety”
Granite Environmental LLC proudly introduces the entre into its new market field “industrial supply and material handling”. Online visitors and current customers will find an industrial material handling product variety of bins, cabinets, carts, casters, containers, conveyors, hoppers, lifts, pallets, safety equipment, shipping supplies, and many more on the web stores ...
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“Granite Environmental, LLC supports local charity event of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martin County
Granite Environmental, LLC had the honor of supplying eight (8) fifty (50) feet sections of debris boom to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martin County, used to contain the ducks for their first annual “Duck Derby” race in November 2009. A video of this event can be viewed at www.duckderbymartin.com. Granite Environmental, LLC (GEI) is a leading international contract manufacturer in ...
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EPA protects Sheyenne River from unauthorized construction site discharges
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Gowan Construction, Inc. (Gowan) and the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at an interstate highway construction project affecting the Sheyenne River near Harwood in Cass County, North Dakota. Gowan is based in Oslo, Minn. and maintains a branch office in ...
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