Due to current environmental laws and new possibilities of soil analysis, the processing of ground water and soil remediation has greatly gained in importance during the last years.
New requirements in this area of environmental management show the necessity of processing the ground water in landfills. The last few years have shown that the soil often gets contaminated due to environmental disasters. For example, Klinkau replaceable, »Empty Chamber« Membrane Filter Plates were used to decontaminate the infested soil after the oil-tanker catastrophe in France.