Seepage is something you can’t avoid with unlined ponds. As you know you have to have a conservative allowance built into recovery.
I suspect high rates of evaporation also help to offset seepage.
The biggest concern I would have as a holder is trench performance because this operation is heavily dependent on trench in its early years and they haven’t released much/any data apart from DFS assumptions.
s07
Originally posted by aruc6393:
↑ Nice point but the ponds have a " lined cutoff wall or driven sheet piles " to stop the lost of the brine so other than the initial saturation to develope the pavement floor there should be no lost ! dilution could occur if say the sheet piles are not fully embedded or the clutches are not tight allowing surface water in especially after a rain events or it could just be weaker brine with a mixture of all issues.