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What Do Koi Need to Thrive?
As you dive into the fun world of koi, you'll discover that with the proper tools to keep your pond clean and your koi healthy, these fish can be your companions for 20 years or longer.
How are Brine Ponds Designed?
Designing a quality brine pond, that functions as desired, takes a lot more work than just picking a liner.
Which Liner Material is Best for Brine Ponds?
A liner of some kind is essential for a brine pond because the water can’t be allowed to seep out through bare soil.
The Question of Covers for Brine Ponds
When brine ponds are designed for short or long-term storage rather than evaporation or alternative processing, covers are often used to contain the water.
How Brine Ponds Differ from Other Evaporation Ponds
Evaporation ponds are used for non-brine wastewater too, so in some cases they do not need such stringent engineering and security as the brine pond.
Why Brine Ponds Are Better Than Other Processing Methods
Sizes, depths, volumes, and length of use vary, but all lined brine ponds share some common advantages over other processing methods available for brine treatment.
Sources of Brine Waste
The term brine doesn’t just refer to the combination of water and salt.
The Main Uses for Brine Ponds
Brine ponds are all involved in the storage or processing of brine, but the specific purpose for the pond can vary greatly.
The Most Common Forms of Damage to Irrigation Canal Liners
Even after careful selection and installation, a canal liner made from any material can eventually become damaged and begin to leak. Concrete, geomembranes, and mortar-based systems are tougher than other materials, but they can still become damaged by specific hazards.
Issues Common to Unlined Canals
It is tempting to leave a canal unlined when it’s a small branch that is only supplying irrigation water to distant fields.
Choosing the Right Geomembrane Material for a Canal Liner
Even once you’ve narrowed down your wider canal liner choices to a geomembrane, you still have multiple materials to choose from.
Using Geomembranes as Underlayment for Concrete
If you’ve decided to pair a geomembrane from BTL Liners with some form of concrete or mortar, you’ll need to pick a product capable of pulling this duty.
Canal Lining Options
You’ll need to consider all of your options when choosing a liner for a new or existing canal. Each canal has different needs depending on the soil conditions, size, wall angle and total flow and discharge.
Options for Repairing Damaged Canals
Damaged canals don’t need to be abandoned or removed. Narrow and hard-to-see drainage and field channels need to be drained and filled to avoid serious injury to humans and animals.
How Are Canals Designed and Built?
Canals require geotechnical engineering to last for decades with minimal maintenance, but irrigation canals in particular tend to be built informally or with at least under-engineering.
Why Are Canals Essential to Modern Life?
Many people only associate canals with the waterways in Venice that are traveled by gondola, but each year thousands of miles of new canals are installed for a wide variety of uses.
Common Problems with Geomembranes
With proper material and thickness selection, geomembranes should install smoothly with few issues.
Creating a Complete Geomembrane System
A geomembrane system is a complete set of liners designed to work together to contain any kind of solid or liquid waste.
All About Geomembrane Underlayments
The last category of common applications for geomembranes is underlayment. Similar to liners, an underlayment doesn’t necessarily contain every drop of liquid in a reservoir, but still plays an important role in drainage and soil stability.
Geomembrane Liners vs Other Options
While geomembranes may make the best liner for all short-term and permanent storage situations, they’re far from the only option.
All About Geomembrane Liners
The single most common and essential use for a geomembrane is lining. Without a flexible and impermeable layer of geomembrane, it’s much harder and more expensive to build a pond, tank, containment area, landfill, or other facility that must hold liquids.
All About Geomembrane Covers
Take the temporary tarp to the next level by installing a permanent geomembrane cover that can handle UV exposure, heavy rain or snow loads, and even employees walking over the surface for maintenance.
All About Geomembrane Tarps
Geomembranes are primarily used in applications that leave them buried under the earth or layers of concrete, but they make surprisingly good tarps as well.
What are Geomembranes?
Geomembranes are impermeable and flexible sheets of material designed to secure, stabilize, or seal exposed earth.