Olearaja Samson Amola, 93, is the oldest man in Deghele. He was held by his left hand and brought out by his wife who seats him on a chair in front of a liquid-crystal display television. “The major thing that is essential to the community now is water,” he said. He kept repeating water angrily until he was asked not to speak again by Golly.

Four members of the ConCom, including chairman Andrew Bennett, said Wednesday they are leaning toward a denial. The commission has until June 20 to make a final decision on the project.

The only way to access the full 6.8km of the embankment was over rough ground as there were no temporary roads for the plant and vehicles. “There’s no way we could have built haul roads to every part of the site,” explains Bandy. “We would have had to import so much material and then remove it from site afterwards – that’s a whole earthmoving project in itself.” The entire site is a SSSI and home to a wide variety of rare and endangered species, as Bandy explains: “There’s a large area of vegetated shingle, plus populations of great crested newts and a strong population of water voles.” The soft, wet conditions quickly made access difficult, particularly with the onset of winter. This not only hampered progress but also risked causing huge damage to the diverse and fragile habitats across the site. “The SSSI area included geological features such as a fossilised seabed. “We couldn’t track heavy machines backwards and forwards over these areas,” she says. “We did try out some tracked dumpers as a possible way of overcoming the poor site conditions. Even they didn’t work – they made such a mess,” adds Bandy.

The Nahant Beach Reservation Rehabilitation Project, which began in May 2010 and is expected to be completed in May 2014, has required careful digging and temporary road building to accommodate the beach-going public and to preserve the fragile and protected wetlands that surround the excavation work.

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.

This is not the first Kumbh to have come under criticism for poor management. Things were far from perfect during the last Kumbh as well. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India’s audit report of the event read, “No effective planning for protection of environment and pollution control was made for the Maha Kumbh Mela.”

It is also currently using the Geotube Dewatering Technology that produces high volume reduction and retention of solids.

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“The research was focused on adding enough plastic so as to make the additions worthwhile in terms of providing a use for the waste, but at the same time not so much as to reduce the concrete strength to an extent which makes it too weak for structural applications,” Dr Richard Ball, from Bath’s Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, told The Engineer. “10 per cent by volume additions of plastic could save 820 million tonnes of sand every year from being used in concrete mixes.”

Dunn said around 15 acres of the waterfront will be cut off from lake currents by barriers called geotubes during the cleanup. A number of barriers or curtains will prevent the spread of any toxic material that’s dredged up from making its way out into the bay or lake.