Suction dredging was conducted to remove impacted material inaccessible to mechanical dredge equipment from around structures, such as the marine railway and wooden pile supported piers, in portions of the Nearshore Area.  Semper Diving and Marine conducted the suction dredging using a 6-inch Godwin Diesel Dri-Prime Pump.  The slurry was pumped into geotextile tubes inside a hopper barge.  Dewatering water was pumped to a water treatment system managed by Lockwood Remediation Technologies on the upland portion of the site.

Beside the rebar steel in concrete structures, steel also will be used in fences, guardrail posts, signposts and miscellaneous reservation items (bike racks, benches etc.).

For the reservoir itself, the first step is covering the bottom of the IBC with a thin layer porous stone. That is followed by laying the slotted agricultural pipe atop the rocks and putting the rigid pipe into the agricultural pipe. Then, the rigid pipe is held vertically in a corner of the tote such that it sticks up past the top. While holding it, add more porous rock until it covers the agricultural pipe and is almost a foot deep. Once that’s finished, the last step is to cover the rock with permeable cloth.

The deal expands Infiltrator’s product line with Presby’s wastewater treatment technologies, such as Enviro-Septic, which is an on-site system that removes wastewater contaminants to recycle clean water into the environment, and EnviroFin, which treats and disperses wastewater. The products primarily use high density polyethylene and geotextile materials.

“The air pruning allows you to take full advantage of your media and capture that entire volume of media without restriction,” Bradley explains.

In fact, that’s part of her mission: to mix the old with the new. “I feel extremely lucky to have some of the old-school landrace stuff that my father has given me, the amazing genetics my friends have blessed me with … to bring out everything I’m about to bring out,” she says, referring to a launch for new genetics she has been prepping for four years.

A week and a half after Slat and I met in New York, crew members stationed in the gyre were doing a maintenance check of Wilson when they noticed that one end of the boom, an eighteen-metre segment, had snapped off and floated away, owing, apparently, to “material fatigue” on a small section. Perversely, Wilson’s plastic wasn’t durable enough. The segment was retrieved, and the two parts were towed to Hawaii, arriving just off the coast on January 17th. Dubois had been in Honolulu, trying to negotiate a way to bring Wilson into the harbor and onto a loading dock, either to be repaired in Hawaii or, if necessary, shipped back to the assembly yard in Alameda. When we spoke, he sounded determined, if weary. “The I-told-you-so’s have been pretty abundant,” he said. “But we’re not just a bunch of cowboys going out there to play with a big tube thing out in the ocean, trying to prove that we’re right. We want to show that this is an important research platform.” One of Slat’s funders, the grant foundation of the Swiss bank Julius Baer, recently gave the Ocean Cleanup an additional six hundred thousand dollars for research into safely recycling ocean plastic, which is brittle and often toxic. None of Slat’s other donors had indicated that they would stop supporting the Ocean Cleanup. Hugh Welsh told me that, despite the “unwarranted criticism that the project has faced,” he and DSM “remain steadfast supporters.” (In spite of repeated requests for an interview, Marc Benioff, Slat’s top donor, said that he was unavailable for comment.)

Four engineering graduates from Hyderabad believe that if you want to eat and live healthy, it’s best to grow your own vegetables. They tried this in their own homes and now, through their entrepreneurial venture HomeCrop, have helped more than 600 people to follow suit.

Early on the morning of September 8th, the day of the launch, Slat dreamed that the pipe had been sent out into the seawater and had begun to melt. He woke up and could not get back to sleep, so he started preparing for the dozens of interviews he would give that day. The sky was blue, with light winds and warm air. When he arrived at the pier in San Francisco Bay, the top deck of the media boat, a ferry, was already packed with cameramen and reporters. The Ocean Cleanup’s publicity crew, seven strong, wore turquoise “Ocean Cleanup” shirts, which matched the turquoise-painted Maersk tug ship that would tow the system out to the gyre. Maersk, the largest shipping line in the world, was providing the ship and its crew free of charge. A Maersk spokeswoman named Stephanie Gillespie was aboard, and she told me, “Our seafarers sail through this garbage patch and see this plastic everywhere. So it made sense for our company to invest in cleaning it up.”

The tribunal has asked UP chief secretary to immediately act on the mismanaged solid waste from the pilgrimage

Additionally, complex jurisdictional issues regarding the ownership and management of the site would also need to be worked out.

The Indian jute industry sees a potentially huge market in places like California — the first U.S. state to ban disposable plastic shopping bags at most stores — and more than 80 countries where governments have introduced regulations against plastic bags and foam products, according to the United Nations Environment Program.