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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.

Published Year: 2008

Grouting has occasionally been thought of as a more temporary solution, a stop-gap. But recent testing of two 20-year old acrylamide grout rehab projects indicate that grout can certainly stand the test of time.

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.

Published Year: 2005

In this study, A table top lateral joint model was used to investigate grout movement through soil, when sealing sewer pipe leaks at lateral joints by grouting.

Published Year: 2004

An exemplary grouting program in Plant City in central Florida proves highly-cost effective in reducing inflow and infiltration

Published Year: 2002

As the recovery and rebuilding of New York City continues, new problems and challenges continue to present themselves at Ground Zero.

Published Year: 1999

Published Year: 1999

Construction of a new overpass on I-55-70 in East St. Louis, IL required an innovative solution to a persistent groundwater problem

Published Year: 1999

The WIPP in New Mexico was created as an R&D facility to demonstrate safe, long-term disposal of radioactive wastes. However, before waste could be shipped to the plant, fissures in the underground salt cavern had to be sealed.

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.

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.

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.

Published Year: 1960

In Oregon's Deschutes River canyon, a 440-foot dam sits on Pelton basalt formed by lava flows. Springs emerged from lava contacts, necessitating closure beneath the dam. Deschutes sediments were exposed on the dam abutments, which made using cement grout

Published Year: 1960

An eight-year-old loading and mooring dock, 1600 feet long, at Sept Iles was showing distress. It had been constructed by driving sheet piling then placing a heavy rockfill as a base.

Published Year: 1960

Problem: At Seafield Colliery, three cross-cuts, 16-17 feet wide by 12- feet high, were being driven horizontally through the Millstone Grit series, which contained many weakly cemented and porous sandstones.