Abstract:
A system of floating canal sections that connect end-to-end along a route to form a shipping canal and contain brine to prevent freezing. The canal sections of the present invention resemble floating dry-docks that are filled with the brine solution rather than with normal sea water. Sections can be floated into place and connected. Sections can be anchored to the sea floor. A typical section can be around 1000 feet long, 150 feet wide and about 50 feet deep. The sections can be manufactured anywhere and towed to the Arctic and connected. The use of brine prevents pollution if there should be a leak.
Abstract:
A lagoon batch wastewater treatment system for a wastewater treatment lagoon wherein a containment tank expands and contracts during a sewage treatment process reducing erosion of the berm or bank of the lagoon.
Abstract:
A method of restoring a lake that has a high saline level is disclosed herein. In order to restore the lake, a series of concentric dikes or levees are provided that separate the lake into a plurality of smaller lake sections, each having a water surface. The smaller lake sections include an outer lake section which is next to the periphery of the lake and one or more inner lake sections. Each dike and each smaller lake section water surface have an elevation. Water is flowed from an influent source to the outer lake section and then to each of the inner lake sections. The outer lake section surface has a higher elevation. The inner lake section surfaces have cascading lower surface elevations. At a central area, a breathing brine area is provided that is surrounded by the smaller lake sections to provide an area that can be used to concentrate brine. The smaller lake sections can have differing salinity levels for sustaining diverse marine and plant life.
Abstract:
A flexible structure assembled of impermeable modules surrounds a constant volume of liquid so as to control its quality. The modules may join together so that they can adjust to changing water levels. They may have a single layer or an impermeable membrane may sandwich a foamed core. Anchor sacks may hold the structure tightly to the sea bottom, or conventional anchors embedded in the sea bottom may anchor floating structures whose modules close their bottoms. Seals over joints reduce seepage so that conventional filters may clean and treat the liquid. The foamed core modules buoy the structures and insulate against heat transfer. A floating mat of modules comprising flexible transparent membranes may cover the enclosed liquid to prevent heat loss while achieving a solar energy gain. The structure may also be made in one piece from a flexible membrane. The structures are useful for safer bathing, aquaculture, recreational diving, underwater work or exploration, filtering operations and isolating liquids for any other purpose more easily, quickly, cheaply and safely than conventional structures.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for creating moderately quiescent water in which salt marsh wetland grasses can endure and eventually establish without the need for the total elimination of the energy of occurring waves or the restriction of sediment passage
Abstract:
A controlled containment barrier system is provided that can prevent the migration of dissolved phased contaminants in water systems. The system includes sheet piling installed in a body of water, the sheet piling having valves disposed at various vertical elevations on the sheet piling panels that allow the discharge of water at various strata in the body of water through the barrier system.
Abstract:
The invention provides a marine infrastructure comprising a concrete matrix having a pH of less than 12 for use in promoting the growth of fauna and flora in aquatic environment, and methods for promoting the growth of fauna and flora in aquatic environment, including endolitic and epilitic flora and endolitic and epilitic anaerobic and aerobic flora and fauna.
Abstract:
A lagoon batch wastewater treatment system for a wastewater treatment lagoon wherein a containment tank expands and contracts during a sewage treatment process reducing erosion of the berm or bank of the lagoon.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ecological biotope water purification system utilizing multi-cells and multi-lanes by considering the width, length, curvature and slope of proposed composition site wetland and pond. The system comprising: a sedimentation pond (200, 200′) for temporarily storing wastewater incoming from an Inlet (100,100′); a marsh (300, 300′) incoming the primarily treated water, being precipitated solid contaminants, and discharged from the sedimentation pond (200, 200′), and at least one Multi-level cell composed an open water-surface pond (400, 400′) entering the primarily treated water from the marsh; a settling reservoir (600, 600′) outflow finally purified water by multi-level cell inflow for temporarily storing through outlet (700, 700′), the multi-level cell consists at least of two multi-lanes (40, 40′, 40″), each lane is separated by small dikes (900, 900′). The present invention has advantage to compose the suitable wetland and pond on the proposed land by considering the geographic situation of site width, length, curvature and slope. Thus, it is possible to maximize the flexible design.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a floatable barrier comprising a plurality of sections or panel members, removably secured together to form an integrated structure for use in isolating or defining a confined area along the edge of a body of water, which area can be treated and made safe for human occupancy. Each section or panel member is formed of a flexible sheet of impervious material with the upper edge portion thereof overlapped to define a chamber coextensive with the width of the section for receiving floatable material which may be either a solid or a gas and the lower edge portion reinforced and secured to anchoring means, for maintaining the sections in a substantially vertical position when disposed within the water.