CASE STUDIES
HOW TO PROTECT A JETTY OR PIER FROM AN OIL SPILL BACKGROUND:
OBJECTIVE:
Our client based on the Mediterranean Coast has a fuel jetty and needed a permanently installed oil spill response solution that can be deployed and operated easily by 1 or 2 personnel. The client required a system that could adjust automatically to the large tidal range.
To provide a complete boom system to be rapidly deployed prior to fuel transfer operations taking place. The system must be able to cope with changing sea levels and conditions and need minimal operating personnel. It must be possible to leave the boom system permanently located at the jetty and in the water ready for use.
SOLUTION: The system supplied consisted of 4 Foam Filled Sentinel Booms with fixed VikoSeal hammerheads mounted midway on the outermost booms. This created a Primary Containment Zone of approximately 30m x 5m. The fixed booms were installed under the Jetty connecting to the piles with slider mechanisms to allow the boom to rise and fall with the tide and swell. The sliders are attached to the piles using stainless steel bands that require no modification to the piles, making them ideal to retrofit to existing installations. The VikoSeal Booms integrated with the fixed boom can be raised when not in use and lowered into position once the vessel is alongside and prior to loading/unloading operations commencing.
More details from: E: kmurray@vikoma.com T: +44 (0) 1983 201882 W:www.vikoma.com
EFFECTIVE USE OF OIL SPILL EATER II CUSTOMER: DUNTON ENVIRONMENTAL Dunton Environmental – they challenge traditional thinking in the construction industry and continuously develop new ideas to solve complex environmental ground and contamination problems to deliver their clients real programme and cost benefits. Services include remediation contracting, waste management, Japanese knotweed treatment, soil & water treatment as well as contaminated land assessments.
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CHALLENGE: To efficiently & safely accelerate the reduction in TPH levels of hydrocarbon contaminated soils onsite in order to enable their future use. The soil is initially screened to remove any builder’s rubble and deleterious materials. It is then treated according to the chemical nature of the soils, either by way of: accelerated bioremediation to degrade any residual organic pollutants such as TPH and PAH (including Benzo (a) pyrene); or by the addition of Dunton’s chemical oxidation compounds which induce chemical reduction.
