Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, situated off the nation's coast, is prone to heavy storms. As local development has increased, underground storm water systems currently in place (i.e., city sewers, irrigation channels and waterways) have become insufficient to handle the storm water runoff of large-scale developments.
When construction of a Costco warehouse began in Puerto Vallarta, CULTECH storm water chambers were selected over a series of concrete detention tanks. It took local contractor Maiz Mier two weeks to install 297 heavy-duty recharger V8 chambers, which took up 1,106 sq meters of the 50,000-sq-meter site. Specific to this application, the entire bed is wrapped with CULTEC 410 filter fabric, and the sides are lined with a thick polyethylene liner to detain storm water and prevent it from infiltrating through the sides of the bed.
Source: CULTEC Inc.
