Settlement basins and retention pond Waste deposition
As we continue the discussion on settlement basins and retention ponds from last month, IKON Environmental Solutions, LP (IKON) thought that we should address one of the most problematic issues associated with the largest jobs IKON performs each year. IKON receives many calls for solutions to help deal with settling basins, retention ponds, stormwater ponds, process ponds, lined ponds, unlined ponds, and everything in between (I’m going to use the term “pond” for now to describe all of these). One of the biggest expenditures of costs, and one of the most debated decisions associated with cleaning out the ponds, is inevitably the disposal of waste (sediment) generated from the cleaning. As with many remediation projects, the waste tends to drive the discussion for nearly everything else.