Nth Consulting – DeltaProbe Seepage Meter

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Nth Consulting – DeltaProbe Seepage Meter

Infrastructure Engineering & Environmental Services

About the Company:

NTH Consultants, Ltd. (NTH) are experts in geotechnical, environmental, & facilities engineering. They have been providing professional engineering consulting services to the energy, urban renewal, water resources and infrastructure markets since 1968. From a small, Detroit-based, geotechnical engineering firm, this company has grown significantly providing a wide range of services in geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, and facilities engineering.

About the Solution:

Performance Assessment of Environmental Containment Structures

The NTH-Abletech team offers a formal program to evaluate overall hydrologic performance of impoundments, lagoons, open tanks, pits, ponds, and other liquid storage facilities for compliance with regulatory limits (e.g., NRCS Standard 313 and Michigan Part 22 rules). This program is applicable to a range of industries, including: agriculture, wastewater treatment, power generation, mining, oil and gas, waste management, and water supply.

Their systematic approach involves the following simple elements:

  • Site Characterization - review of available information for understanding of existing hydrologic conditions
  • Test Planning - coordination with owner and staff to reduce risk and uncertainty, and minimize operational disruptions
  • Test Control - Cease outflows/inflows; mow embankments; test during calm, dry conditions
  • Computation of Results - seepage equals water level change minus evaporation, with known accuracy
  • Summary Report - by a professional engineer, documents a quality-assured test with known accuracy.
Nth Consulting claims to have a superior alternative to predictive evaluations. This program features the DeltaProbeTM seepage meter system. This in-situ test measures seepage and overall liner system performance with known accuracy. The test uses published scientific methods along with more recent measurement technologies that enhance the utility of these established procedures. Advancements include unprecedented precision, providing conclusive, real-time results in as little as eight hours, with limited operational disruption or waste contact.

The DeltaProbeTM system reduces time, cost, and risk. Specifically, this approach:
  • Does not require removal of the contents of the containment structure
  • Eliminates invasive sampling & laboratory testing
  • Delivers meaningful results in a single night of testing
  • Is safe and bio-secure, minimizing access to the structure and contact with waste
  • Operational disruptions are minimized and an engineer certified test report is available within two weeks
  • Nth Consulting 41780 Six Mile Road Northville, MI USA (248) 553-6300 Visit Company Website

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    Newtrient Comments/Opinions:

    A standard procedure for rapid direct testing of animal waste storage ponds has been approved by the Michigan Agricultural Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP). The concepts and methods of this procedure also may apply to measurement of overall hydraulic performance of other environmental containment structures in general industry including impoundments, lagoons, open tanks, pits and similar reservoirs. Emerging technologies provide significant improvements to these measurements.

    The Nth Consulting DeltaProbe Seepage Meter System is an example of one such system which measures water level displacement on the order of 0.01 mm. This sensitivity allows for significant measurement of seepage and evaporation over a single night. The procedure also provides for methodical assessment of measurement accuracy. The procedure and related technologies have potential to compliment or replace other evaluation methods like inspection and invasive testing of containment structures in agriculture, wastewater treatment, power generation, mining, oil and gas, and water supply.

    Newtrient will continue to work with Nth Consulting to further refine the cost and performance information as more information becomes available.

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