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Pit cleaning

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Rob

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Ok Guys I run a Car Wash in Ct and they have been using sand/salt and Liq calcuim like crazy and I had my pit cleaned and it was close to 5k to clean, and it will need cleaning again soon. We cleaned it one month ago .

SO how can I SAVE MONEY ON THIS AND IN ]CT ITS REGULATED WASTE,

HELP ANY IDEAS

BOB
 
carefully check your regs. on this. If it is properly dried it may not be classified hazardous.
 
Rob said:
in ct dry or wet its regulated waste

pit cleaning machines?

bob
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I have one from Ring-O-Matic. It is Model 500-T. It is the BEST way to clean your pits hands down. The vacuum machines do work, but it is back breaking work. You also will have some issues getting all of the mud out. We had the "square machine" from Swaub welding out of TX, but had too many issues with this type of machine (vacuum). The only problem with the 450 T 500 T or 1000 T is the size of your pit opening. You have to have enough room to get the open clam shell into the pit. Some older wases have an opening that is too small and you end up having to use the vacuum type pump.

http://www.ring-o-matic.com/
 
Huh?

Is this a tunnel we're talking about? You had the pit cleaned or your reclaim tanks? I have run tunnels and we always cleaned our own wash pit, on down days. Depends on you state regs, but in most cases along as you let the mud dry out, you can put it in the dumpster. For reference though, the last tunnels I ran were in Virginia and it used to cost us about $1100 to have 3 settling tanks pumped out, we did that about once every 6 months. Our Pit we cleaned ourselves, at a minimum once a month.
 
pit cleaning

It was just for the pit in the tunnel it was done one month prior to this cleaning also, the area I am in has been using alot of sand/salt mix and with an additive to make the sand stick better, it has been a pain in the___>
But we clean our main tanks (undeground once a year). In CT its regulated waste no matter what dry or wet, The price was 5k for 8.5 tons of wet sand and water. In 9 years I have not seen so much sand being used.
Even today only two weeks later I have 3 inches of sand in the pit.

Uggg

bob
 
jfmoran said:
Depends on you state regs, but in most cases along as you let the mud dry out, you can put it in the dumpster.
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This is accurate, except that it's an EPA regulation, so unless some other local regulation overrides it it's good everywhere. The rule is that the mud must dry on a hard surface with the water runoff allowed to go into an appropriate drain. Your dumpster company may not allow mud; ours doesn't, but I do it anyway.
 
ok i am in same boat..takenn over a wash and now have full pits and a full retaining tank..who do I get to pump?? I live in Indiana and everyone I have called says its hazardous waste and they cant touch it! HELP!
 
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