This paper presents a construction method, the bio-polymer slurry drainage trench, which is a modification of the well known slurry trench method which uses biodegradable trenching slurry to temporarily support the trench walls and control trench width.

This paper presents a bio-polymer slurry used, instead of bentonite slurry to temporarily to support the trench walls without structural bracing. Upon completion of backfilling, the slurry in the trench was chemically reduced to water and simple sugars to ...

An investigation was conducted at a site in Greenville County, South Carolina which detected contaminants in the groundwater. It was then decided that remedial action was required. The contaminants and their location in the groundwater led to the selection ...