Subject: Pond lagoon
From: "Jim Wall" <[email-masked]>
To: "NWB Senior Technical Advisor" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:03:45 -0600

Hi Dionne:

Spoke to Sherif, and putting info together we discussed.  Lagoon project sounds like a real fiasco.  From what I can understand, Mosher was going to lay the liner on an underlying surface that was totally non-homogeneous (mix of boulders, cobble, sand and sludge).  What's really incomprehensible is that they were then going to lay 300 mm of material on top of the liner once it was placed, and re-compact.  When they hit the upper layer, the material under the liner would have compacted unevenly, and they would have ripped $1,000,000  (yup, that's the correct number of zeros) worth of liner to shreds.  The lagoon would have continued to leak like a sieve...

Anyway, a proposal and digital pictures are forthcoming shortly.  I'll work with Sherif, and keep you appraised of developments..

Regards,

Jim.