GEI WORKS – News/ Blog
Be Prepared: Emergency Water Storage for Fire Season
Be Prepared: Emergency Water Storage for Fire Season Wildfires are unpredictable and can spread rapidly, leaving little time to react. Whether you're a homeowner in a wildfire-prone area, a firefighter in need of accessible water storage, or a business looking to safeguard assets, [...]
Stop Sargassum Smell and Buildup – Free Pilot Program
Tired of Sargassum? Join Our Free Pilot Program to Eliminate the Odor and Seaweed! If you live near the coast, own beachfront property, or manage a marina, resort, or public shoreline, you’re probably all too familiar with the sargassum problem. This floating seaweed [...]
Turbidity Curtains: What They Are & How They Work
Turbidity curtains are tools used in water management. They help control silt and sediment water clarity and protect the environment. Our curtains are made of durable, UV-resistant PVC fabric and include flotation devices on the top and weighted ballast systems on the bottom. [...]
Stormwater Control – A Guide for Managing Job Site Runoff
Protecting Your Job Site from Stormwater Pollution Managing stormwater runoff is essential for construction sites to prevent pollution from entering local waterways. Uncontrolled runoff can carry sediments, chemicals, and debris into storm drains, impacting ecosystems and risking regulatory fines. Here's how you can [...]
Exploring the Depths: Deep Depth Turbidity Curtains Redefining Environmental Protection
In the realm of marine construction and dredging operations, maintaining environmental integrity is paramount. However, it's often easier said than done, particularly when dealing with the challenges of sediment dispersion and turbidity. Deep depth turbidity curtains, used for challenging underwater construction projects, [...]
What is Sargassum and how it affects us
Sargassum is a category of large brown alga that drifts in island-like clusters and never anchors to the ocean floor. The sargasso sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by currents. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is the largest macroalgae [...]
What is a Containment Boom?
Containment booms help stop oil from spreading and polluting shorelines and resources. They control the oil's movement. Booms also concentrate oil in thicker surface layers, making recovery easier. Booms can help move oil slicks in the water to make them easier to [...]
What is an Oil Containment Boom?
An oil containment boom is a floating barrier to help stop the spread of an oil slick on water. Various equipment and tactics can be used to help with a spill response during a threatening, advancing oil slick. Oil Containment booms are [...]
Sargassum and the Havoc it’s Created
Sargassum Boom An increase in the growth of sargassum has been documented around the world in freshwater and saltwater bodies. Some scientific papers have linked the increase in sargassum at least indirectly to a world made warmer by climate change. Seasons have [...]
