System and method for reclaiming and optimizing land
AssigneeEarth Purified LLC
InventorJeff Mueller
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Abstract
The present invention is a system for treating land, either to reclaim or optimize the land. Embedded subsurface pipes deliver water to the land. The water may be loaded with soil-treating additives. As water streams from the pipes, it treats the land before passing into a drainage ditch around the periphery of the land. The water is removed from the ditch and recycled, removing contaminants (in reclamation operations) or adding more additives (in optimization operations), before returning to the pipes for another round of treatment, if necessary.
Claims20
A system for treating land, comprising:
- at least one pipe loop embedded in a plot of land, a wall of the at least one pipe loop having a plurality of pipe apertures extending therethrough;
- at least one water main pipe connected to the at least one pipe loop;
- at least one drainage trench encircling the plot of land and draining to at least one water storage unit;
- at least one irrigation pump interposed between the at least one water storage unit and the at least one water main pipe;
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- a stream of water circulating from the at least one pipe loop to the plot of land to the at least one drainage trench to the at least one water storage unit to the at least one irrigation pump to the at least one water main pipe and back to the at least one pipe loop.
A method for using a system for treating land, comprising:
- embedding at least one pipe loop below an upper surface of a plot of land;
- connecting a beginning of the at least one pipe loop to an outlet pipe branch of at least one water main pipe
- connecting an end of the at least one pipe loop to an inlet pipe branch of the at least one water main pipe;
- digging at least one drainage trench completely circumscribing the plot of land;
- connecting the at least one drainage trench to at least one water storage unit;
- lining the at least one drainage trench with permeable membrane and non-permeable membrane;
- connecting at least one irrigation pump between the at least one water main pipe and the at least one water storage unit;
- connecting a system controller to the at least one irrigation pump;
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- circulating a stream of water from the at least one pipe loop to the plot of land to the at least one drainage trench to the at least one water storage unit to the at least one irrigation pump to the at least one water main pipe and back to the at least one pipe loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.