Case Study
LA County Sanitation
LA COUNTY SANITATION Lancaster, California PROJECT: LA COUNTY SANITATION LOCATION: LANCASTER, CALIFORNIA INSTALLATION DATE: OCTOBER 2015 PRODUCT: SOIL-SEMENT® ENGINEERED FORMULA PROJECT SIZE: 580,000 SQUARE FEET BACKGROUND: The Los Angeles County Sanitation District processes roughly 510 million gallons of water daily, and all that water can take a toll on processing facilities. Last year, a Lancaster, California-based water reclamation plant began to experience rill erosion on the 5.5 miles of linear slopes bordering its four massive retention ponds, as well as on the unpaved roads that crest those slopes. Troublingly, the site also began to experience “blowouts” -- events in which a hole forms in the cresting road and, when flushed with water (such as dur