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XR Geomembrane crucial for utility district facility achieving zero discharge success

July 22nd, 2024

By Felon Wilson The Olivenhain Municipal Water District’s (OMWD) 4S Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) receives 1 MGD (3785 m3/day) of municipal wastewater, treats it to tertiary standards and discharges none. XR-5® lined water reuse storage impoundment. The 4S WRF serves a population of 7,500 homes in the 4S Ranch and Rancho Cielo areas, both in San […]

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XR Geomembrane protects environment in sensitive reuse application

June 5th, 2024

By Felon Wilson Government agencies, utilities, and industrial customers are increasingly relying on geomembrane solutions for projects that could potentially threaten the environment. Cost-effective due to their ease of installation and proven to be reliable for decades, geomembranes have become a popular front line in protecting natural settings.  Concrete wall construction. Photo courtesy of Murfree […]

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Navigating unexpected contaminants with your geomembrane system – Part 3

April 2nd, 2024

By Felon Wilson Unexpected contaminants coming in contact with an existing geomembrane system are real situations. In the final post of this series, three examples of situations that occurred will be presented, along with the project considerations and the outcome. In all three of these examples, the geomembrane did not require complete removal and replacement, […]

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Navigating unexpected contaminants with your geomembrane system

March 5th, 2024

By Felon Wilson Geomembranes are long-term containment barriers. As such, it is not uncommon for them to be called upon to contain liquids not originally planned. That is particularly true in applications which are more likely to produce changing or varying liquid containment requirements. This blog series will dig into how unexpected contaminants can be […]

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How geomembranes help to improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment – Part 3 

December 11th, 2023

By Felon Wilson “Old ideas are being evaluated and new concepts are being formulated.” George Tchobanoglous, University of California Davis, in Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal and Reuse, 3rd Edition.  In this post and the next, geomembrane use in wastewater management will be discussed. The wastewater management system will be broken into two parts: Wastewater Collection and […]

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How geomembranes help to improve water quality, lower costs and increase efficiencies in wastewater treatment

November 8th, 2023

By Felon Wilson Part 1: Wastewater Industry in North America “We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness, we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.”– […]

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Layfield Australia becomes exclusive Australian distributor for Seaman XR Geomembranes

May 14th, 2018

Layfield Australia along with the Seaman Corp. announced May 11, 2018, that both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), establishing Layfield as the exclusive distributor of Seaman’s XR® Geomembrane product line in Australia. Both companies have shared a mutually beneficial relationship in North America for more than 25 years, with Layfield fabricating and […]

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