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geomembrane

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geomembrane [‚jē·ō′mem‚brān]
(civil engineering)
Any impermeable membrane (usually made of synthetic polymers in sheets) used with soils, rock, earth, or other geotechnical material in order to block the migration of fluids.


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17 Pan Am Southern began paving the off-loading facility in Ayer without revising Environmental Management System reports; without submitting a design for or installing a geomembrane layer under the planned locomotive area, which would catch oil spills from locomotives and ensure that oil doesn't contaminate the nearby pond; and without demonstrating compliance with the requirements for a satisfactory stormwater system.
Some of the examples of geotech products are geogrids, geonets, geomembranes and geocomposites.
 
 
 
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