Projects and Case Histories from AGRU America

Projects

Selected Projects & Case Histories from AGRU America

AGRULINE rehabilitates transmission main in New Orleans

AGRU's DIPS HDPE pipes used to rehabilitate a transmission main in New Orleans to provide infrastructure for a sustainable future

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AGRULINE helps replace a failed sewer main pipe affecting half a million people

Challenging sewer system fix accomplished using AGRULINE and a record-breaking installation technique.

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AGRULINE used to create a better hydrothermal system in Lake Geneva

The intake and outfall pipelines for the facility's heat pump were completed in March 2021, using about 800 m of the AGRULINE piping system.

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AGRU Liner Celebrates 25 Years of Service in Florida Lift Station

Since being in service for more than 25 years, the lift station has worked flawlessly with its SureGrip upgrade. Find out more.

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AGRU HydroCLICK rehabilitates potable water source for town

HydroCLICK carries the benefits of HPDE products as well as features for tank rehabilitation, offering enhanced installation times.

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AGRU lining system supports an upgrade at a northern Nevada mine

The mine upgrade is ongoing with about half of the pad complete. The contractor estimates the project is more than a month ahead of schedule.

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AGRU HDPE pipe used to support trunk sewer upgrades at Three Mile Creek

The piping system has provided significant time savings, and will be the largest OD HDPE HDD project in North America.

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AGRU HDPE pipe used to help to create a new sewer main for Fort Lauderdale

The force main set a record for one of the longest and largest HDD pressurized sewer pipe installations in the world, at 3,100 ft at OD 54.

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Integrated Drainage System for a Remedial Landfill Closure Cap

In order to manage landfill closure costs, this city chose a design that included HDPE geomembrane, double-sided geocomposites, and geotextiles.

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Electrofusion Fittings Solution Facilitates the Upgrade of a Wastewater Treatment Plant

The upgraded WWTP aims to improve operations, increase employee safety, and meet environmental requirements.

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Improving Closure System Performance and Construction Efficiency

Engineers developed a new method to improve system performance and construction efficiency.

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Huntington Landfill Closure

Due to new regulations, the Huntington, Indiana landfill plan had to incorporate the closure of 60–65 acres of landfill that would be capped. The city selected AGRU Super Gripnet to help close the project.

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Creating an Outfall Pipe for a Wastewater Treatment Facility

The CRD Wastewater Treatment Project has brought attention to the benefits and practical applications of supersized HDPE plastic pipes.

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Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) in Nevada

This tailings storage facility, or TSF, in northern Nevada has now selected AGRU MicroSpike geomembrane liner for three phases of its expansion.

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Expansion to the Annacis Waste Water Treatment Facility

AGRU Sure-Grip and Ultra Grip have been in active use throughout Metro Vancouver’s wastewater treatment and collection system since the 1990s.

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PE 100-, ECTFE-, FEP, PDVF-Flex and PFA-lined ISO containers to transport chemicals

Logistics partners seek specialized containers that guarantee high cost-effectiveness and product quality.

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Waste Water Treatment Plant Expansion

The project was completed in a timely manner despite initial challenges. In addition to product familiarity, AGRU geomembrane was chosen due to its close proximity to the project site.

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Barrick Cortez Water Storage Reservoir

The Cortez mine had a need for sustainable water solutions. Their mining operations overwhelmed the current containment system. A design with a significant drainage solution was needed.

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Underwater wastewater piping in alpine lake

The Traunsee is considered one of the purest lakes in Austria. To keep it that way, a 47-year-old sewer pipe was replaced by a modern underwater pressure line with the help of products from AGRU.

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Gilt Edge Mine Closure

The Gilt Edge mine has been in operation since 1876 as a site for gold ore. Discover how the project saved thanks to the AGRU integrated structured geomembrane.

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Cummings Road Landfill Closure

This landfill closure utilized AGRU America’s proprietary Integrated Drainage System (IDS) geomembrane vs. a standard textured LLDPE and geocomposites.

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Lining Ultra-High Purity Acid Tanks

AGRU PFA GGS sheets were selected as the liner material of an ultra high-purity tank due to its near universal chemical resistance and low leachable content.

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Record-Breaking HDD Installation

For a large-diameter, twin-pipe culvert underneath the Spree River in Germany, AGRU PE pipelines with ODs of 1400 mm (55.1 in) and 1200 mm (47.2 in) were installed trenchless.

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Louisa County Landfill

Louisa County Landfill Closure Project an inactive 17-acre Municipal Solid Waste Final Closure cover system located in Mineral, VA.

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Holcim Cement Landfill

The Holcim Cement – CKD Landfill is a 46-acre final closure cover system project located in Catskill, NY.

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Delaware Solid Waste

The DWSA, Sand Town Municipal Solid Waste Facility is a completed 4-acre long-term interim cover system located in Sand Town, DL.

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Exxon Bayway Refinery Landfill Closure

The Exxon Bayway Refining Company (Exxon) site is situated on approximately 1,300 acres at 1400 Park Avenue, in the city of Linden in Union County, New Jersey.

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Lanchester Landfill

Although merits of an EGC system existed, it was concluded that an EGC was not a suitable system for final cover at Lanchester, and examined the ClosureTurf with Agru geomembrane product.

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Seneca Vogel Landfill

Cost (maintenance) and erosion were the driving forces behind using ClosureTurf® at the Vogel facility.

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Saufley Field Landfill

SWANA awarded Escambia County’s effort to remediate a variety of major issues at Saufley Field Road Construction and Demolition Landfill with the Silver Award for Landfill Remediation.

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Berkeley County Landfill

Berkeley County Water and Sanitation completed a 10-acre long-term cover system at its landfill site in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

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Sand Valley Alabama

The ClosureTurf® at the Sandy Valley Facility initially was a 2-acre pilot project for Republic Services Inc. evaluation of the ClosureTurf® system.

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EWS Landfill

Smelter waste was a major issue for this EWS. Ammonia gas generation would kill off vegetation when they would try to vegetate.

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Tangipahoa Landfill

After combating nearly a decade of erosion control issues, Tangipahoa Parish Waste Facility of Independence, LA finally found long awaited success in covering the state-owned landfill by installing ClosureTurf®.

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LaSalle-Grant Landfill

The soil of the LaSalle-Grant Landfill in central Louisiana was highly erodible, had a high plasticity index, and had a natural pH of 4.0, so its characteristics were not conducive to side slope maintenance.

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TimberRidge Landfill

Due to its location in a seismic area, concerns over slope stability that could compromise gas collection and containment was a major concern for this landfill.

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B&W Pantex Landfill

The ongoing challenge at the Pantex Plant was the constant maintenance of the pre-existing cap due to wind and water erosion of the existing landfill cap.

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City of Portola Landfill

The City of Portola landfill was an unlined landfill with highly erosive soils on site causing long term maintenance issues and ground water contamination problems.

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George Air Force Base California

EPA Superfund Site LF-14 at George Air Force Base was closed with HydroTurf® as its landfill closure medium.

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Hartford Landfill

A unique 35-acre landfill closure project that utilized 5 of those acres toward a photovoltaic solar field now capable of powering over 1,000 homes.

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PBS Coals

A 30-acre coal refuse pile presented several design challenges including steep slopes, accelerated project schedule, and challenging subgrade characteristics.

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Crazy Horse Landfill

A 66-acre landfill that required a closure system able to fulfill five criteria including environmental, seismic, groundwater, motorist, and local community requirements.

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