CPCB guidelines say if the fecal coliform content, which comes from human excreta, is more than 2,500 million per 100 ml, it is unfit for bathing. At Sangam Ghat, the fecal coliform content in February was 12,500 millions per 100 ml water, shows UPPCB data. At Shastri Bridge, it was 10,150 millions per 100 ml.

He’s seen contractors take buckets off their loaders and put on a mounting bracket to lift and deploy rolls. 

Geotextiles strengthen dredged soils and help in holding it firmly under the vegetative growth, slopes, and coastal erosion. In consequence, geotextile market from erosion control application will garner substantial profits and will record a CAGR of 10.5% over the period of 2017-2024. Speaking along the same lines, India has been forecast to be one of most profitable business grounds for geotextile market as regards to erosion control applications. In fact, it has been projected that India geotextile industry from erosion control will grow at an annual rate of 12.5% over 2017-2024.

Many parts of the communities are becoming a forest and for people who cannot afford the luxury of going to town to stay, they continue to drink bad water, while waterborne diseases will always affect them.

The fiber’s roots here go back more than 2,000 years. Mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts, it was spun on peasants’ hand looms into twine and simple clothing.

An interesting study. Instead of plastic bottles, the use of pieces of polythene bags – which may work as fibrous materials to check tension cracks – may prove beneficial.

The frost boils on Arch Street Southeast have been excavated and filled with gravel but still need paving.

“Chevron who is supposed to be a blessing to us has become a curse to us. They take our oil from us and give us peanuts. They try to colonize some of our brothers (IRDC members) and give them money to fight the whole Itsekiri land,” he said.

Bob Delhome, president of Charter, said “The Gloucester MGP remediation project has been recognized by the industry as one of the most challenging and complex projects of its kind implemented over the past 20 years. It is meaningful to be recognized by our peers for successfully completing and delivering this challenging project. This successful outcome would not have been possible without the stewardship of the project’s responsible and committed owner, National Grid, and the support and expertise of the engineering partners, GZA GeoEnvironmental and Anchor QEA.”

The dowel bars carry the load on the roadway from one panel to the next. The dowel bar assemblies, or baskets, were placed in the transverse contraction joints on top of the textile. “The basket anchors down the geotextile to the underlaying pavement and surface so it doesn’t move,” Pelkey explains.

A document “The Odyssey of Waste: A Case for Itsekiri Development Master Plan” that details the projects awarded, executed and abandoned in Itsekiri land, showed that IRDC in 2008 awarded the contract for the construction of the health centre, which has been covered by weed, for the sum of N56, 935, 363 to Moofreg International Services.

An emergency heat-dumping plan is a feature we have not yet seen in practice, but we have seen the need for it.