April 2007 Issue

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  Commentary RE #1: article on structured geomembranes

  The article on the use of structured geomembranes in landfill final closure designs from the February/March 2007 issue of Geosynthetics presented negative overtones relative to coextruded geomembranes in a manner that is unbalanced in perspective, in my judgment.

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  Commentary RE #2: article on structured geomembranes

  It takes an “interesting” article (“Using structured geomembranes in final solid-waste landfill closure designs,”) to generate a dozen pained e-mail comments to me even before I received my February/March copy of Geosynthetics!

• Further clarifications on GRS construction

  Thank you for your response to my concern about a photo in Geosynthetics magazine, February-March 2007.

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  A conservative junction-strength requirement

  Thank you for the article “Junction-strength requirements for roadway design, construction” (Geosynthetics, February/March, 2007), defining and categorizing the use of junction strength as a specifying property for geogrid reinforcements.

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  Geosynthetics-2007 is a hit in D.C.

  After more than 1,000 participants and 76 exhibits, more than 60 papers and presentations, 9 short courses, 4 special sessions, 3 keynotes, and 2 panels—after all that in just 4 days, the Geosynthetics-2007 Conference and Trade Show came to a close in Washington, D.C.

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  IECA rolls into Reno

  Environmental Connection—EC-’07—filled the halls of the Reno-Sparks Convention Center Feb. 12-16.

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  Geosynthetics sessions packed at GeoDenver

  Nearly 70 eager attendees crowded into each of the three technical sessions on geosynthetics held during the annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE at the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver Feb. 18-21.

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  U.S. geosynthetics demand to reach 870 million yards2 by 2010

  Geosynthetics demand is projected to increase 4.4% per year through 2010 to 870 million yards².

• ASTM committee developing drain test

  ASTM International Committee D35 on Geosynthetics is currently developing a proposed new standard that covers the test procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of prefabricated vertical drains to enhance the consolidation of soils under specified conditions.

• Richardson company now has new name

  Richardson Smith Gardner and Associates is the new name for the former G.N.Richardson and Associates, based in Raleigh, N.C.

• Textiles, grids help build Seattle park

  Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park is a visionary architectural achievement that blends building and site design, including a strollable park on Seattle’s steep waterfront.

• New geogrid aiding ancient monument

  Nearly 5,000 years old, a monument known today as the Shunet el-Zebib is the only surviving example of a series of monumental cultic buildings built by Egypt’s earliest kings.

• Point State Park renovation to preserve Fort Pitt ‘bastion’

  Following a plan supported by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the state’s Department of Natural Resources is resuming renovation work at the Fort Pitt tracery in Pittsburgh’s Point State Park as part of a $7.1 million improvement project.

• English seaside resort to get Europe’s first artificial surf reef

  A project has started to create Europe’s first artificial surf reef on the south coast of England.

• Abstracts due for IECA-’08

  The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) is currently accepting proposals for technical programming at Environmental Connection ‘08, IECA’s annual conference and expo Feb. 18-21, 2008, in Orlando, Fla.

• Coming: 3rd edition of SRW design manual

  The National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) Design Manual Task Group for Segmental Retaining Walls (SRW) has decided to create a third edition of its manual, which combines the SRW Drainage Design’s second edition and the Seismic Design manuals into one complete text.

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  Geosynthetics and the government marketplace

  A report commissioned by the Geosynthetic Materials Assciation has opened up a government relations program and the first organized lobbying effort for the geosynthetics industry.

• GRI-20 conference: A retrospective

  All previous GRI conferences have focused on either a single or double theme.

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  Geomembrane raincoat liners in the mining heap leach industry

  This article includes a review of raincoat liner systems in use or planned for use on heap leach pads in regions with high rainfall events or annual month-to-month wet seasons.

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  Multiple-tiered retaining walls

  The Norris Canyon Estates in San Ramon, Calif., east of San Francisco, are gaining a local presence not merely for luxury homes but also for the nearly half-million ft.² of multiple-tiered retaining walls built throughout its challenging terrain.

• New geogrid aiding ancient monument

  Nearly 5,000 years old, a monument known today as the Shunet el-Zebib is the only surviving example of a series of monumental cultic buildings built by Egypt’s earliest kings.

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  Historic Fort Sheridan implements innovative ‘best-practices’ stormwater and landscape plan

  Five years ago, a housing develoment company needed to prepare a stormwater management plan and design best management practices (BMP) for stormwater management at historic Fort Sheridan.

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  Geocell, grid, and reinforced-soil in restoring eroded steep slopes

  In October 2003, stormwater overflows from an intense, short-duration storm eroded approximately 20,000 yds.³ of soil from the bottom and side slopes of a ravine between the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and a subdivision near Tacoma, Wash.

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  Multiple-tiered retaining walls

  The Norris Canyon Estates in San Ramon, Calif., east of San Francisco, are gaining a local presence not merely for luxury homes but also for the nearly half-million ft.² of multiple-tiered retaining walls built throughout its challenging terrain.

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  Historic Fort Sheridan implements innovative ‘best-practices’ stormwater and landscape plan

  Five years ago, a housing develoment company needed to prepare a stormwater management plan and design best management practices (BMP) for stormwater management at historic Fort Sheridan.

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  Geocell, grid, and reinforced-soil in restoring eroded steep slopes

  In October 2003, stormwater overflows from an intense, short-duration storm eroded approximately 20,000 yds.³ of soil from the bottom and side slopes of a ravine between the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and a subdivision near Tacoma, Wash.

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• ASTM committee developing drain test

  ASTM International Committee D35 on Geosynthetics is currently developing a proposed new standard that covers the test procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of prefabricated vertical drains to enhance the consolidation of soils under specified conditions.

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