With help from U.S. Army civil affairs officials, a village contractor recently worked to restore the drinking water supply for the Iraqi town of Sedamine and four surrounding villages. But the well drilling project brings more than just water to Iraqi villagers.
It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of 3 feet. It can drill a hole 3,280 feet deep into the seabed while floating above more than 16,400 feet of ocean, and it can generate 55 megawatts of power.
Brayman
Construction Corp., headquartered outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., provided a
diverse range of products and services for the fast-track SR-28 project in
Etna, Pa.
According
to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey, human activities are impacting
ground water resources. In study of 30 randomly selected public water-supply
wells, there was a correlation found between increasing populations and increases
in contamination.
Though
a worldwide problem, arsenic contamination of drinking water does not have a
universal solution. Instead, recent work on arsenic-tainted wells shows that
appropriate treatment varies, depending on the source of the contamination.
In late November, the ANDRILL drilling team passed the 3,000-foot mark in rock core pulled from beneath the sea floor in McMurdo Sound, and with a remarkable recovery rate of more than 98 percent. The expected final total should exceed more than 3,600 feet – the second-deepest rock core drilled in Antarctica.
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