Geotechnical Files
Magazine Article: City of Dearborn Tackles Complicated Grout Curtain Project
Published Year: 2010
- Many U.S. municipalities and utility districts face federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandates to correct water quality problems caused by discharges from combined sanitary and storm sewer systems
Magazine Article: Pre-Excavation Grouting of Contact Zone and Rock Formation
Published Year: 2009
- The EPA has cited combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges as a significant source of pollution to the nation's surface waters.
Comparison of Chemical Grout Properties: Which Grout Can Be Used Where and Why?
Published Year: 2006
- This paper is about the current uses of chemical grouts, the economics of product use, and a discussion of where specific products within a category can be used.
Long-Term Performance of Grouting Around a Flood Control Bulkhead in Shoals, Indiana
Published Year: 2006
- The long-term performance of the end-product is more important. For this reason, we have re-visited an 18-year-old mine grouting project that took place to prevent the flooding of a gypsum mine in Shoals, Indiana.
2003 DFI/Geo-Institute Paper: Irreversible Changes in the Grouting Industry Caused by Polyurethane Grouting
Published Year: 2003
- An Overview of 30 Years of Polyurethane Grouting
News: Working at Ground Zero
Published Year: 2002
- As the recovery and rebuilding of New York City continues, new problems and challenges continue to present themselves at Ground Zero.
Acrylamide Provides Lasting Help for United States Government
Published Year: 2001
- Beginning in 1985, federal and state regulatory agencies began close monitoring of the waste management operations at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), as well as other Dept. of Energy (DOE) sites.
Rembco: When Grouting - Don't Forget the Soil
Published Year: 2000
- When soil or rock improvement or modification is needed, grouting is one of the options called for.
Flyer: We Kept the Airplanes Flying with Chemical Grout!
Published Year: 2000
- In 1997, serious leaks developed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in a long utility tunnel connecting a passenger terminal with the central plant.
Case Study: AV-100 Chemical Grout Solves Leakage Problems in Tailings Dam for Large Copper/Gold Mine in Argentina
Published Year: 1998
- This is a case study whereby acrylamide solution grout was used to achieve the “target residual permeability value” in the rock formation below a future tailings dam for a large copper/gold mine in Argentina.
Magazine Article: Using Grout to Lock Pollution in Place
Published Year: 1998
- In Pennsylvania, Rembco used grouting to contain oil leaking under an oil refinery’s sea wall. The concrete wall had been constructed on top of old wharf piling. Over time, tidal action caused erosion, resulting in leakage at the wall’s base.
Case Study: Grouting Saves Effluent Pipeline and Maintains Plant Operations
Published Year: 1996
- During a routine facility inspection at a major West Coast paper plant in Canada, a small leak appeared near the shoreline where an underground 42-inch fiberglass reinforced plastic pipe carried effluent to diffusers in the ocean.
Magazine Article: 72-Inch Pipe Stabilized With Chemical Grout
Published Year: 1994
- At a paper mill in Alabama, a weakened joint was found in a six foot diameter pipe carrying more than two millions gallons per hour of effluent.
Magazine Article: Avanti Leads in Industry Development & Education
Published Year: 1994
- Trenchless Technology - June 1994 - Avanti leads in industry development and education: In 1978 when Avanti International was formed by four rehab contracting companies, David Magill was hired as its first employee and the company's first president.
Case Study: Blocking Artesian Flows
Published Year: 1960
- This 440- foot earth and rock- fill dam is located in a deep canyon along the Deschutes River in Oregon on a foundation of Pelton basalt, created by a series of lava flows.