AquaBlok is a patented, composite-aggregate technology resembling small stones and typically comprised of a dense aggregate core, clay or clay-sized materials, and polymers. For typical freshwater product formulations, AquaBlok’s clay (sealant) component consists largely of bentonite clay. However, other clay minerals or clay-sized materials can be incorporated to meet project-specific needs, including product use in marine environments. Other technology parameters (particle size, relative clay content, etc.) can also be modified as appropriate.
AquaBlok is a family of low-permeability, thin capping materials that provide isolation of contamination from the surface water to establish a new, clean benthic layer for restoration. These materials can be used as a thin layer cap, for post-dredging residual management, in a funnel & gate approach that is intended to minimize the potential for contaminant breakthrough while directing groundwater or advective flow to a treatment gate, and many more applications.
