Process for sealing soils

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR REDUCING SEEPAGE LOSS OF WATER THROUGH A POROUS SOIL FROM A BODY OF WATER CONTIGUOUS TO AND IN CONTACT WITH THE SURFACE OF SAID SOIL, SAID SOIL HAVING A SEEPAGE RATE OF FROM 0.3 TO 600 CUBIC FEET OF WATER PER SQUARE FOOT OF SOIL PER DAY, WHICH COMPRISES ADDING A CONCENTRATED AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF WAX-IN-WATER TO SAID BODY OF WATER TO FORM A DILUTE DISPERSION OF 0.05% TO 5.0% BY WEIGHT OF WAX IN WATER, THE LINEAR FLOW RATE OF SAID BODY OF WATER BEING NOT MORE THAN ABOUT 3.5 FT./SECOND, THE PARTICLE SIZE OF THE WAX BEING NO GREATER THAN 5 MICRONS, MAINTAINING THE RESULTANT BODY OF DILUTED DISPERSION IN CONTACT WIHT SAID SURFACE FOR A TIME OF AT LEAST THIRTY MINUTES SUFFICIENT TO PERMIT SEEPAGE PENETRATION OF SAID DISPERSION FROM SAID SURFACE INTO SAID POROUS SOIL AND TO DEPOSIT A SUB-SURFACE WAX MEMBRANE COMPOSED OF WAX AND SOIL PARTICLES ADHERING TO EACH OTHER FORMING A CLOSLY KNIT, SELF-SUPPORTING WAXY LAYER ESSENTIALLY PARALLEL WITH THE SOIL SURFACE AND AT LEAST TWO INCHES BENEATH SAID SURFACE, SAID MEMBRANE BEING AT LEAST 1/32 INCH THICK SUFFICIENT TO INHIBIT SEEPAGE OF WATER THERETHROUGH.