FMC needed to remove the water from phosphorus tailings lagoons due to incidents of wildlife death. Earlier attempts at floating millions of bright plastic balls had failed to warn all the birds that attempted to land. Due to the explosive nature of phosphorus when it comes in contact with the air, this problem was no easy task to solve.

An extremely strong polypropylene fabric of over 113 newton-meters in both directions and known as GC 1000 was selected. They contracted Flint Industries, Inc. to develop a panel plan for each pond and to panelize at their facility in Georgia, panels that could later be assembled on-site by applying the final seams.

  

Flint Industries was then selected to assemble the panels on-site using a heavy duty double needle sewing machine. Once sewn, the panels were then moved into place by the general contractor and winched across while maintaining tension on the sides. The entire process took a little over two weeks to cover 83613 square meters of lagoons.