Category Archives: Bio-Foul

A Smarter Approach to a Complex Environmental Challenge

Pharmaceutical Cleanup Pump

A CLEANUP YEARS IN THE MAKING

At a former pharmaceutical manufacturing site in the United States, decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental concerns. Even after manufacturing at the facility had ceased several years earlier, impacted groundwater and soil remained, requiring extensive remediation efforts.

Remediating this property involved several corrective actions to address contaminated groundwater and other similarly affected areas. Groundwater treatment would also continue well after cleanup efforts were completed as part of long-term stewardship of the site.

In one portion of the project, the challenge became even more significant: affected groundwater and NAPL needed to be removed through a specialized horizontal well at a low pumping rate. That meant finding the right equipment suited to the precise well configuration and capable of delivering the steady, controlled pumping the application required.

At a former pharmaceutical manufacturing site in the United States, decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental concerns.

Restoration of Distressed Liners at a Hazardous Waste Landfill

anchor pump side slope

Anchor Electric Piston Pump Brings Section of Landfill Back Into Compliance

A Midwest disposal facility found use of an Anchor Electric 101 top-head drive piston pump to effectively mitigate the effect of a crushed side slope well.

Early in 2003, during routine sampling of the secondary sump, the pump became stuck during extraction. Working as a team, the owner, designer, and contractor created a shaft-accessed repair design plan.

The design included extending a 10-foot diameter steel cased shaft to a depth of approximately 60 feet below waste surface and cutting a section of liner plate so it would conform to the shape of the sump.

Anchor electric piston pump brings section of landfill back into compliance a midwest disposal facility found use of an anchor electric 101 top-head drive piston pump to effectively mitigate the effect of a crushed side slope well.

Pumping the Sump – Without the Biofouling

Close-up view of a groundwater monitoring well installation, featuring a well cap with various pipes, valves, and sensors above ground, including a top-head drive pump. The background includes a grassy landscape, trees, and distant buildings under a clear blue sky.

The Clean and Reliable Edge Pump Offers Ease of Maintenance, Draining for Landfill

When bio-growth on a competitor’s airlift pump rendered it unusable in a landfill sump at a remarkably clean, state-of-the-art facility in the Northeast, the nationally recognized landfill installed the popular Edge Pneumatic Piston Pump™ from Blackhawk.

Biofouling is unacceptable to the ISO-awarded managers of the privately owned 720-acre site, which receives an average of 4,750 tons of solid waste a day and is proud of its environmental management system.

Pumping the Sump – without the Bio-Fouling When bio-growth on a competitor’s airlift pump rendered it unusable in a landfill sump at a remarkably clean, state-of-the-art facility.