The Saharan amount of sand needed for this operation, 2.7 million cubic yards (a large dumpster holds thirty cubic yards), would be dredged from an offshore "borrow site," pumped to the beach, and sprayed and bulldozed to conform to the Corps's design specs.
Deep-sea divers plunge to inky depths to dynamite wells for the south pier; towers rise and cables are spun "more than 700 feet above the surging sea"; a geologist descends with his trusty hammer "into the very core" of a site pumped clear of water to "bang on the rock walls" and test their strength.
However, the UK is experiencing a modest boom in its production, with the number of sites pumping it into the national grid rising more than nine-fold in the space of a year.
A talking head chats up a dot-com executive in the upper left-hand corner of the personal computer screen while stock quots flicker in an adjacent box and a collection of Web sites pump out original copy across the bottom.
A data sheet format is organized for providing or demanding the following information: project information, operating (liquid) data, pumping (system) data, site conditions, pump driver information, design operating conditions, and pump design.
An armada of tank trucks hauls several million gallons of water to each well site, where pumps shoot it down the well at such super high pressure — 8,000 pounds per square inch — that the rock splits.
After the columns were packed and TCE added, 10 pore volumes of groundwater taken from the Sages site were pumped at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min using a Gilson peristaltic pump (Gilson, Inc., Middleton, WI).
1 rat in the H group died while under anesthetic for pump implant surgery and 1 rat in the L group developed skin necrosis at the site of pump insertion.
Under a consent decree, ILR was forced to cap the site and pump leachate from it.
At one such exploratory site, tall pump jacks stood above two active wells on a small patch of federal land.
