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RPE Applications: Controlling Water Movement

Water movement can bring great benefits in many situations

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RPE Applications: Ponds of all Types

One of the defining characteristics of reinforced polyethylene geomembranes is their impermeability to liquids of all types. 

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RPE: The Leader in Composite Geomembranes

A wide range of industries depend on high quality, durable, impermeable geomembranes, wherever there’s a need for dependable containment. 

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What's the difference between Geosynthetics, Geomembranes and Geotextiles

Polyethylene sheet products are regularly referred to using several different terms

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What is Polyethylene?

Polyethylene (PE) is the world’s most used plastic. 

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Top 10 Questions About Fishponds

1) How Long Will Building a Fishpond Take?

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How to Maintain an EPDM Pond Liner

Once your pond has all the finishing touches, whether those are underwater lights, a waterfall, and blooming plants

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How to Install an EPDM Pond Liner

Once the hole has been thoroughly prepared, go ahead and install any in-ground equipment components you have, including skimmers, waterfall filters, or bottom drains.

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How to Build a Pond: Sweat Equity

So, you have your pond clear in your mind’s eye, you’ve decided on the details of how your little oasis will operate

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How to Measure for a Pond Liner

Once a prospective pond owner has decided to take the plunge and figured out important details like location, layout, and the best depth 

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How to Build a Pond: First Steps

A pond, whether it’s a wildlife pond, an ornamental garden pond, or a fishpond, is a labor of love 

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Why Choose EPDM for My Pond Liner?

Selecting a pond liner will be one of the most important decisions you’ll make regarding the construction of your pond

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What Exactly is EPDM?

EPDM is one of the most popular pond liner materials on the market due to its high flexibility, ease of installation, and high UV resistance. 

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Why Do I Need a Pond Liner?

There isn’t much worse than putting sweat (and tears) into your vision of a beautiful backyard water garden 

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Top Questions about Agricultural Runoff

Agricultural runoff triggers significant problems that range far beyond the dozen or so yards adjacent to where it enters the stream. 

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Top Questions about Managing Runoff Water

Runoff water in urban environments can be redirected using dry streams, grassed swales

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How is Water Recycled on Farms?

Agricultural recycling can be managed in two basic ways: a closed loop system, where drained or tailwater is directly recirculated

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Storing and Recycling Agricultural Runoff

Drainage water recycling is a water management practice that captures water drained from agricultural fields

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Collecting and Treating Agricultural Runoff: Part II

Two-stage ditches are a relatively new but highly effective innovation in containing and directing flow of agricultural runoff. 

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Collecting and Treating Agricultural Runoff: Part I

Natural wetlands fill specific functions in the ecosystem. 

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Managing Pollutants in Agricultural Runoff

Pollution caused by agricultural runoff is one of the primary causes of water quality issues throughout the US.

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How Can Runoff Be Contained?

SCMs are permanent, engineered structures built and maintained to remove pollutants from urban stormwater runoff. 

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How Can Runoff Be Diverted?

Given the nature of very intense storms, it’s not always possible to increase natural absorption to the point where there’s not substantial runoff.

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How Can Runoff Be Reduced?

We’ve discussed how excessive runoff can present major hazards to human lives, public health, infrastructure, as well as both local and distant ecosystems.

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Why Should Runoff Water Be Contained?

With a large percentage of land covered by hard, impermeable surfaces like pavement, parking lots, buildings, and sidewalks, rainfall cannot be naturally absorbed into the soil. 

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