Transportation & Disposal

Hydraulic Drill Cuttings are typically stock piled onsite to dry out and then transported for final disposal and or recycling. Russell Reid offers the efficient removal, transportation and disposal/recycling for all drilling projects.

Drill cuttings are a combination of a specific product, like bentonite slurry that is mixed with water and the ambient soils on the drilling site. Typical drilling applications include: Horizontal Direction Drill(s) (HDD(s)), vertical drilling and well drilling.

Defined, industrial wastewater falls into the category covering bulk liquids and semi-liquids that include but are not limited to groundwater, stormwater, oily wastewater, food processing, industrial process wastewater, or manufacturing wastewater generated from cleaning batch tanks, rinsing down equipment, flushing process lines, spent chiller loop waters, quenching and cutting fluids, and drilling muds. Industrial wastewater may have some level of organic and inorganic contamination from solvents or degreasers, metals, pesticides, herbicides, PCB’s, acid and caustics resulting in a lower or higher pH.

Russell Reid will profile your waste and identify the treatment options that best suits it based on strength, viscosity, quantity, and frequency and generation location. We will identify any reporting, permitting or regulatory oversight to make sure our offering is not only the best possible value but compliant.

Russell Reid is an expert in finding the most cost effective and compliant disposal options for your petroleum impacted groundwater, storm water runoff, bilge water and oil water separator residual wastewater. Whether it is generated from vehicle service bays, car washes, fuel storage areas, transport facilities, storm water collection and treatment systems, Russell Reid will deliver value, professionalism and peace of mind that your waste was properly managed.

Russell Reid is available on short notice, or sign up for our periodic maintenance plan where we can provide a scheduled service according to your facility specifications.

Groundwater in our region can vary in quality depending on its contact with current and historic ambient contamination in the soil. Commercial and industrial waste generators prior to the 1972 Clean Water Act dumped hazardous and toxic materials onto their property. Industries long gone have left a legacy of contamination deep into the landscape including metals, volatiles, pesticides, herbicides, PCB’s, and other constituents of concern. Russell Reid understands the disposal landscape and our years of experience assure you the best qualified approach to your site’s groundwater disposal needs.

Small quantities of bentonite suspended in water form a viscous, shear thinning material often referred to as bentonite slurry. At high enough concentrations, bentonite suspensions begin to take on the characteristics of a gel. For these reasons, it is a common component of drilling mud used to curtail drilling fluid invasion by its propensity for aiding in the formation of mud cake.

Bentonite is also used in the construction of slurry walls. These walls are used to build tunnels and to lay foundations in areas where soft earth is too close to open water or in areas with high groundwater tables. For instance, slurry wall construction was used to construct the “bathtub” that surrounded most of the World Trade Center site.

Sites using bentonite, for either horizontal drilling or slurry wall construction, recycle the displaced product. When the bentonite slurry becomes “spent”, no longer having beneficial properties, or at project completion, there is a need for disposal.