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Have you had the experience of digging a hole in a muddy field? It can be a frustrating time. While you may be able to take the mud out of the hole, it will soon fill with water, making your task almost impossible. If you are managing a building site that has similarly muddy conditions, the situation is far worse. Rather than struggling to create suitably deep foundations in difficult conditions, it is better to fully drain the land and remove the surface water before building work starts, but that isn't easy either. You can't have teams of men straining to empty buckets of water. You must have proper pumps brought to the site to carry out the work in a professional manner.
How can you drain the land?
If you want to drain muddy ground, you must use dewatering pumps. It might be tempting to think you could manage with conventional pumps, but that will probably end in disaster. Draining a field is not like emptying a swimming pool where the water will be mostly clean and free from large impurities. A building site will contain mud just water but gravel, rocks, and lots of sludge. It won't take long for a conventional pump to become completely blocked if it must operate under those conditions. Dewatering pumps are a better option since they are specifically designed to cope with those conditions.
What's special about dewatering pumps?
There are several types of dewatering pumps, but what they are all designed to do is to separate the solid matter, such as earth, from the water. They prevent the solid material from entering the pump and causing it to clog. A dewatering pump extracts the water while leaving the earth behind to be dug out of the ground as would usually be done. As with any pump, you must decide what will happen to the water you are taking out of the ground. Will you need a container to store it, or can it be safely pumped away to a nearby river lake or storm drain?
To learn about dewatering pumps, talk to your local supplier. They can explain the available options, and help you pick dewatering pumps that are perfectly suited to your circumstances. Once you have the dewatering pumps running it shouldn't be too long before the land is sufficiently dry for you to start digging down and creating strong foundations to support the new structures you are building.
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