Cleaning out the settling pond and hauling away the muck was a labor-intensive, season-long drain on the bottom line for Wissota Sand & Gravel – one that owner Christopher Larson was no longer willing to settle for. As such, [...]
The discharge of dirty water from wet screens, sand screws or classifiers has always presented numerous challenges to sand washing operations. While the use of settling ponds is typical, the method unleashes a host of disadvantages. Pond maintenance [...]
A portable wash plant operation is only as efficient as its water resource management – and when water is tight – production may often come to a halt. “If you don’t have the water, you’re not going to get [...]
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Mechanical dewatering in dredged material management is on the rise. Driving the trend are issues such as high contaminated sediment transportation costs and low space availability at many confined disposal facilities. Clarifiers, or what the industry terms as “thickeners,” [...]
