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Trailer Mounted Oil/Water Separator Saves Money
The US Air Force hired a construction company to remove the Underground Jet Fuel distribution system for the Military Airlift Command. This involved numerous Underground Storage Tanks with over 55,000 gallons capacity each and thousands of feet of piping. The company removed as much of the jet fuel from the tanks as possible. In order to clean out the distribution lines, the company flushed the lines with approximately 30,000 gallons of water into the storage tanks.
This water contained high levels of jet fuel. The water had to be pumped from the tanks before the tanks could be removed. The most competitive cost the company could get to haul 30,000 gallons of contaminated jet fuel was $0.60/gallon. The Air Force did not want the water to be pumped into the sewer system without any treatment. The sewer discharge limit for Total Hydrocarbons was 50 ppm, and there was no way to be certain that untreated water would not contain high levels of free product.
Clear Creek Systems provided the construction company with a cost effective and timely solution to the problem. By bringing a self-supported trailer mounted Oil/Water Separator to the site, the company was able to treat the water to a level acceptable to the Air Force treatment plant.
The mobile system included an Oil/Water Separator capable of over 65 gpm, a sump pump, a flow sensor/totalizer (needed for reporting requirements), and a pump to the discharge point from the Oil/Water Separator unit. The trailer had a footprint of only 6’ x 8’.
The mobility of the system allowed for rapid movement from tank to tank to treat the contaminated water. The entire project was completed at less than half of the cost of hauling the water to a disposal facility for treatment. This included mobilization of the equipment, monitoring the equipment to ensure safe operation, the equipment, and demobilization.
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