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Barriers


In environmental and civil applications in many cases a need to block a waterflow is faced, in order to avoid groundwater spreading of pollutants or be able to create a so called polder construction.

Cofra has various barrier solutions available. Some of these make use of HDPE membranes, resistant to a wide range of chemicals. Other are based on cement bentonite walls installed with a trencher. Sometimes we combine these techniques. Our barriers can be installed horizontal, on a slope or even vertical over 30 meters of depth. Cofra solutions focus on separation, not on structural strength.

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Our solutions

Cofra has the following barrier solutions within it's portfolio

A selection of our barrier projects

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Geolock installation as water barrier for highway cut A4

We supplied and assited with the installation of 45,000m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, inside a cement bentonite walls to assure watertightness for a long cut below groundwater of the new extension of the A4 highway in the Netherlands. Maximum installation depth was 18m.

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Geolock installation as water barrier for Aquaduct N381

We installed 15,000m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, up to a depth of 17.7m to assure watertightness for an aquaduct of the N381 provincial road in the Netherlands.

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Geolock in primary flood barrier up to a depth of 25m

We supplied and assited with the installation of 30,000m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, inside a cement bentonite walls up to a depth of 25m to assure watertightness of a primary flood barrier in Nijmegen.

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Geolock installation for Aquaducts around Leeuwarden

We installed on five projects around Leeuwarden in total 33,000m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, up to a depth of 15m to assure watertightness for several aquaducts between 2013 and 2016.

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Geolock installation as vertical cut off barrier in Vedigge, Sweden

BAT Cofra installed 5,900m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, up to a depth of 17m to assure watertightness in Vedigge Sweden.

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Geolock installation to prevent contamination spread of landfill of Torquay

Cofra Ltd installed 2.500m2 of Geolock, a vertical impermeable 2mm HDPE seal, up to adepth of 8.5m to assure watertightness and prevent the spread of contamination around a landfill site in Torquay in 2008.