AquaBlok® can be packaged and delivered to project sites in a variety of ways. Packaging can involve placing product into two-ton or twenty-ton capacity bags (for example) and delivering either on trucks or by rail. Some projects may instead involve product manufacture on-site, thus precluding the need for significant packaging and transport.

Transporting AquaBlok® by Truck

Stock-piled bulk bags of AquaBlok®

Bulk Delivery by Rail

AquaBlok® can be handled and placed using commonly available equipment and technologies. Methods used for placement can include:

• a crane and clamshell bucket, also operated from barge- and on-shore positions;
• a shore-based excavator bucket;
• an articulated, telescoping conveyor, operated from both barge and on-shore positions;
• placement directly from the bottom spout of shipped bags of product (facilitated by suspending the bags with an excavator bucket, for example); and
• a helicopter, equipped with specially designed material drop bags.

Loading a Material Barge

Loaded barge

AquaBlok® Placement with Clamshell

Crane with Clamshell Bucket

AquaBlok® Placement with Excavator

Telescoping, Articulating Conveyor

Placing AquaBlok® Directly from Bulk Bags (SuperSack)

Helicopter Placement

Other techniques - including pumping, slinging, or dry land application - may also be used to effectively place AquaBlok®material.

The most appropriate placement method(s) for a given project will depend of a variety of factors including: water or shoreline access, surface water characteristics and ecology, size of the project area, relative costs, etc. Innovatively designed clamshell buckets currently used for relatively efficient and accurate removal of sediments - such as the Cable Arm™ technology - could also potentially be used for efficient and accurate installation of AquaBlok®into targeted capping areas, particularly when bucket use is integrated with electronic global-positioning equipment.