System for in-situ treatment of underwater contaminated material
AssigneeMillgard Environmental Corporation
InventorV. Dennis Millgard
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Abstract
System including method and apparatus for treating contaminated underwater sediment by lowering a hollow casing to an underbed, lowering a power driven Kelly bar with injecting and mixing blade fed with treatment material such as solidifying cement and flyash, providing a top cover for confining the sediment to be treated within the casing, injecting and mixing the treatment material through the Kelly bar, and sequentially moving the casing with Kelly bar to adjacent treatment locations.
Claims9
Water body treatment apparatus means for injection of treatment material for treating sedimentary silt, sludge, hazardous waste or other contaminated material which has settled at the bottom of a river, canal, pond, lagoon or like water body, comprising hollow casing means for substantially totally confining treatable portions of said material in-situ including cover means to provide enclosure confinement inserted within said hollow casing to the upper level of said contaminated material prior to injection of said treatment material, means for injecting and mixing said treatment material during confinement in each portion, means for terminating each confinement, means for moving said casing with its cover means to and confining successive adjacent portions to thereby effectively treat entire designated areas of a given water bed.
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