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News and Notes at Press Time New Research Touts Wastewater Reuse Innovations
With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry and other applications could significantly increase the nation’s total available water resources, particularly in coastal areas facing water shortages, says a new report from the National Research Council. It adds that the reuse of treated wastewater, also known as reclaimed water, to augment drinking water supplies has significant potential for helping meet future needs. Moreover, new analyses suggest that the possible health risks of exposure to chemical contaminants and diseasecausing microbes from wastewater reuse do not exceed, and in some cases, may be significantly lower than, the risks of existing water supplies. “Wastewater reuse is poised to become a legitimate part of the nation’s water supply portfolio given recent improvements to treatment processes,” says R. Rhodes Trussell, chair of the committee that wrote the report and president of Trussell Technologies, Pasadena, Calif. “Although reuse is not a panacea, wastewater discharged to the environment is of such quantity that it could measurably complement water from other sources and management strategies.”
The report examines a wide range of reuse applications, including potable water, non-potable urban and industrial uses, irrigation, ground water recharge, and ecological enhancement. The committee finds that many communities already have implemented water reuse projects – such as irrigating golf courses and parks or providing industrial cooling water in locations near wastewater reclamation plants – that are well-established and generally accepted. Potable water reuse projects account for only a small fraction of the volume of water currently being reused. However, many drinking water treatment plants draw water from a source that contains wastewater discharged by a community located upstream; this practice is not officially acknowledged as potable reuse. The report outlines wastewater treatment technologies for mitigating chemical and microbial contaminants, including both engineered and natural treatment systems. These processes can be used to tailor wastewater reclamation plants to meet the quality requirements of intended reuse applications. The concentrations of chemicals and microbial contaminants in reuse projects designed to augment drinking water supplies can be comparable to – or lower than – those commonly present in many drinking water supplies. The com-
mittee emphasizes the need for process reliability and careful monitoring to ensure that all reclaimed water meets the appropriate quality objectives for its use. Costs of water reuse for potable and non-potable applications vary widely because they depend on site-specific factors, the committee notes. Water reuse projects tend to be more expensive than most water conservation options, and less expensive than seawater desalination and other new supply alternatives. Although the costs of reclaimed water often are higher than current water sources, the report
urges water authorities to consider other costs and benefits in addition to monetary expenditures when assessing reuse projects. For example, water reuse systems used in conjunction with a water conservation program could be effective in reducing seasonal peak demands on the drinking water system. Depending on the specific designs and pumping requirements, reuse projects also could have a larger or smaller carbon footprint than existing supply alternatives or reduce water flows to downstream users and ecosystems.
John Wolfe Named Atlas Copco’s Technical Support Manager John Wolfe has been appointed to the position of technical support manager for Atlas Copco’s geotechnical drilling and exploration business line. In his new role, Wolfe will report directly to Scott Slater, business line manager – GDE (Geotechnical Drilling & Exploration). He will provide training and technical and product sup-
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port for all Atlas Copco store branches in the United States. Wolfe joined the company in 2003. In 2007, he moved to Elko, Nev., to accept a technical sales and support position with Atlas Copco CMT USA. In 2008, he accepted responsibility for exploration equipment and consumable sales, and achieved record sales.
According to Slater, “John’s vast experience and technical expertise makes him the ideal person to join the GDE business line, with the responsibility of sharing his GDE technical knowledge with our nationwide store and customer base.” Wolfe will be based out of his office in Salt Lake City.
Carl Mason of Bedford, Pa., died Dec. 24, 2011 He was 83 years old, and is survived by four children. Mason was a 40-year veteran of the water well drilling industry, working at Sanderson Cyclone Drilling Co. in Orrville, Ohio, and Baroid IDP out of Houston. He was a world-renowned expert in the field, traveling all over the world to help resolve issues on water well drilling sites. He developed
techniques and equipment to improve the success rate for drillers. Over the years, Mason taught thousands of seminars and conducted field demonstrations across the United States, Canada and Africa. Carl was a life member of the National Ground Water Association, Pennsylvania Ground Water Association, and numerous ground water organizations in the northeast United States. ND
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was elected to his first term on the board. A 12-year veteran of the ground water industry, Guardino has been a member of NGWA for more than five years, and is a past president of the California Groundwater Association. He’s chaired NGWA’s finance and budget standing committee, investment subcommittee, and public awareness committee, as well as working on the contractor’s division board of directors, membership standing committee, policy and code of regulations standing committee, and governance task force. Employed in the ground water industry for 20 years, Lane has been a member of NGWA for seven years. He served on the Tennessee Water Well Association board of directors for four years, and currently is serving as its vice president.
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by Steve Hanley
wo of the more expensive components of your portable drill rig are the diesel engine and the air compressor. Both of these components are constructed of large rotating masses that depend on low-friction bearings to turn freely. Bearing life is shortened significantly when there is exposure to contaminants such as silica particles, or other abrasive solids that are by-products of the drilling process. This is why a good air induction maintenance program is one of the critical requirements
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for the life of these components. Air cleaners and all of the components that make up the air induction system should be inspected at every oil change interval. The air cleaner assembly itself consists of many different components that should net you the cleanest possible air for your engine and compressor. At the air cleaner opening, there is a grille that prevents any large debris from entering. The air then travels to the bottom of the assembly, and is lifted through a series of tubes called the pre-
cleaner. This path allows the heavier solids to drop from the air stream to the dust pan. On the bottom of the dust pan is a valve that will allow the dust pan to drop all solids when the rig is shut off. When the rig is running, negative pressure on the inside of the unit (a vacuum) will pull the valve to a closed position that will prevent foreign matter from entering. The air now enters the upper chamber that (Continued on Page 12)
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houses the primary and secondary filter elements. These elements have seals at both ends so that they seal at the air cleaner housing and to the center stud and retaining nut. These are the prime dirt stoppers in your air induction system, and now have provided the cleanest possible air for your engine and compressor. The air cleaner assembly is fitted with a restriction indicator to help warn you of the performance of the air cleaner assembly. The safety element has a condition indicator on the retaining nut. Once the green dot disappears, the element must be replaced. After the air has been filtered, it must be carried to its destination via a combination of hard piping and rubber hosing. The rubber hosing typically is fastened to the piping with worm-drive or T-lock-type clamps. When performing your air cleaner inspections, it is important to observe all hosing for cracks. These rubber elements are manufactured to withstand ultra-violet light and extreme climatic conditions for long periods of time – but not forever. The retaining clamps should be inspected for proper tension that will seal the rubber to the piping. An over-tightened clamp may cut the hose, and a loose or defective clamp will not properly seal the hose. Some piping may be of a welded construction, and these welds should be inspected for cracks. There is no value in having a great filtering system if contaminants are allowed to enter Card No. 81
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BOB PELIKAN his month’s article focuses on the portion of submersible water system between the wellhead and the house. To put things in perspective, let’s think about what needs to happen in this area to make the system work. We’ll need a pipe to get the water from the wellhead to the tank, and on into the house. We’ll need to provide some sort of control to turn the pump on and off. We’ll need to have a pressure gage to know how the system is performing, and a pressurerelief valve to protect the system in case the pump controls fail and the system starts to build too much pressure. Finally, we’ll need a drain valve to drain the tank for servicing. We no longer recommend installing a check valve between the pressure tank and the wellhead – see the paragraph on check valves below. Figure 1 (at right) shows the component layout for a water system with a pre-charged pressure tank.
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Plumbing Pressure Tanks outside, some sort of solid pad will be needed. Most pump wholesalers carry either plastic or lightweight pre-cast concrete appliance pads that can be easily carried to the job site, and are much easier to install than pouring a cement pad. They particularly are useful if you are in an area where freezing is not a problem, and the tanks are installed outside where you do not need a big pad for a pump house. The pressure tank also needs to be accessible for servicing. Today’s precharged captive-air tanks are built to last 10 years and longer, but eventually they will need to be replaced, so make sure you leave room to remove the tank.
Plumbing the Pressure Tank The decision as to what type of piping to use – PVC, galvanized steel or copper – depends on local codes and personal preference. I like galvanized steel or copper because it is stronger, and is less likely to be broken if someone kicks it or drops something on it. Many pump installers use PVC in the pump house, and it works fine as long as it is protected from outside forces. It is much faster and cheaper to in-
stall. Check your local codes to make sure that the type of piping you plan to use is approved.
The Tank Connection Some installers fabricate the tank connections out of galvanized fittings. My preference is to use one of the specialized stainless steel, lead-free brass or galvanized tank tees offered by the water well accessories manufacturers, because they eliminate five or six joints that could leak, and they save time (see Figure 2 on p.18). For future serviceability, be sure to install a union between the tee and the tank or on both sides of the tee, so when it comes time to replace the tank, you don’t have to cut out your old plumbing. It is important that all of the materials used to connect the tank be electrolytically compatible. In other words, if you are using galvanized plumbing, use a Figure 1. Component layout, courtesy of Sta-Rite. galvanized tank tee; if you are using copper piping, use (Continued on Page 18)
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(Pelikan - Continued from Page 16) a brass tank tee. Whether you use a prefabricated or cast tank tee, or make your own, you need to provide four outlets for the following: 1⁄4-inch tap for a pressure gage, 1⁄4-inch tap for a pressure switch, 1⁄2-inch or 3⁄4-inch tap for a pressure relief valve (PRV), and a 1⁄2inch or 3⁄4-inch tap for a drain valve. You can get a tank tee that has a union going to the tank, with all of these taps included, or you can make the whole thing up with galvanized or copper fittings – your choice.
Pressure Relief Valve The purpose of having a pressure relief valve (PRV) is to protect the system – and the people and property in the vicinity of the system – from damage should something go wrong and
Figure 2. A tank tee offered by Merrill Mfg. the pump builds up too much pressure. The most common failure that can cause the system to over-pressurize is for the pressure switch to stick in the “on” position. Remember that some submersible pumps, particularly those designed for deep wells, are capable
of producing hundreds on pounds of pressure. I have seen pictures of a pump house roof blown off when a pressure tank exploded because the pressure switch stuck, and there was no PRV on the system. Always install a pressure relief valve, and always make sure it is large enough to handle the output of your pump. A 1⁄2-inch PRV is not large enough to protect a 55-gpm pump.
the tank, a leak in the drop pipe or any of the in-well check valves would create a vacuum condition that potentially could draw contaminated surface water into the well through a pinhole in the section between the wellhead and the tank. Therefore, we must rely on the in-well check valves to prevent pressure-tank water from draining back into the well when the pump shuts off.
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In earlier articles on this subject, we recommended installing a check valve between the pressure tank and the wellhead, a practice that has been common for years in the ground water industry. However, since sanitary protection should be our primary concern, no belowground potable water line should ever be subjected to a vacuum. With a check valve at
In order to be able to service the system, without having the water in the house drain back when the plumbing at the tank is opened up, it is a good practice to install a gate valve or ball valve on the house side of the tank tee. Make sure the isolation valve is on the house side of the PRV, and never put an isolation valve between the PRV and the pump. Finally, you will want to install a union at the wellhead to allow the pump to be pulled without having to cut pipe when it comes time to service the pump. Next month, we will talk about selecting and sizing submersible pump cable. ’Til then.... ND
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sions related to wastewater management, water reuse, treatment, resource recovery and energy production. “Our finalists are promising new businesses that unlock unrealized value in the wastewater sector,” says Scott Bryan, Imagine H2O’s director of operations. “Where others see waste, these entrepreneurs see savings and profit. Commercially viable wastewater solutions will have a critical role in creating a sustainable water future.” Wastewater typically is defined as water that has been contaminated by human contact, whether residential sewage, agricultural runoff or industrial
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he last couple of months, I’ve written about both steel and polyethylene material for drop pipe. In the late 1940s and actually through the 1950s, we were installing mostly jet pumps. If you read my two previous articles, you will understand that either galvanized steel or black polyethylene had its own problems. Sometime in the early ’50s, my dad came up with what he thought was the solution to drop pipe problems, and that was copper tubing. All of you, I’m quite sure, have used copper tubing in a number of ways, and understand that it does not come with threads and, in fact, can’t be threaded. To be used as drop pipe in a well, we needed to have lengths that could be threaded together. The answer to this was very simple: We soldered a male thread adapter to one end of each length and a female adapter to the other end. Now the sections could be assembled as we needed, and tightened with ordinary wrenches. Copper tubing had a couple other advantages. First of all, it was a little lighter than steel pipe, and it was very, very smooth – both inside and out. Copper had a couple of disadvantages in that it was quite expensive,
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For a time, copper tubing was a solution to the drop pipe problems. and it could not be tightened into a so-called well seal, so we had to stop the copper just below the seal and run through it with either steel nipples or, better yet, brass. Now it seemed like we had the perfect solution, albeit a little bit expensive one, but copper would take the pressures that early polyethylene would not, and we did not have the problem of scaling and plugged ejector nozzles. In some waters, on the rare occasions that we did have to pull the drop pipe, we found a heavy growth
of minerals that had been deposited on the outside of the copper – I believe a result of different metals in water – causing a battery-like action, thus the deposits. We never did find these deposits on the inside, and copper that had been installed for many years came out just as clean as it was the day it was new. I have talked with a couple of fellow contractors in the area, and they simplified the use of copper even further by using threaded adapters only at the ejector
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(Schmitt - Continued from Page 28) and a little easier to lift, but we finally had licked the problem of a good drop pipe for jet pumps, and we even installed a couple of submersibles using the same material. Of course, as years went by, polyethylene became more reliable, and we’ve had good success with it after about 1960, which led to end of using copper as drop pipe. In an interesting side bit, I once attended the North Dakota Drillers Association Convention in Bismarck, N.D.. They were a great group, and I had a fine time with them, especially trading stories, or networking as it is known in 2012. I talked to a driller from South Dakota, and he cased his wells with 4-inch copper tubing. He told me that they had a serious mineral problem in his area, and the water was too warm to use PVC material, which Others have used copper tubing as drop pipe, too, especially in areas where the water has a high mineral content and temperatures too high to use PVC. had become popular at that time. It must have been expensive, but it worked for this fellow, and I would say more power to him; he did what he had to do. Incidentally, I had a grand time at that convention, and the entertainment after the traditional dinner was a casino night using “funny money.” A lady contractor
... as the years went by, we found a new product to use as drop pipe, that being PVC, or polyvinyl chloride. from out there who had her own license and rig (her husband had a license and rig, too) kind of took me under her wing, and saw to it that I had a good time. They were a great group, and I enjoyed my trip to Bismarck very much. With the advent of submersibles, and as the years went by, we found a new product to use as drop pipe, that being PVC, or polyvinyl chloride. In Michigan, we are required to use Schedule 80 PVC for drop pipe, although, I must admit, I have used a couple short pieces of Schedule 40 with male and female threaded ends glued on just like we soldered those ends on copper. Schedule 80, of course, can be threaded if we are not using full lengths; however, I have learned that one needs to use dies made specifically for PVC threading, as I have found that dies for steel pipe just don’t do a very good job. I have found only a couple of things (Continued on Page 32) 30 | NATIONALDRILLER February 2012
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(Schmitt - Continued from Page 30) about PVC that can be a problem, and one of them is not really the pipe itself, but the couplings. Some of the early Schedule 80 threaded PVC couplings just would not hold up, especially when we old boys, used to steel, over-tightened them. The result of this over-tightening would be a split coupling down the road, and I guess this could cause the pipe to come apart, although I never have had this happen. The early solution to this seemed to be to use steel couplings on PVC pipe, which really does not make a lot of sense, but it worked. Eventually, brass couplings were preferred, and in the most recent years, stainless steel couplings, as brass sort of has gone out of favor with our health authorities and the environmentalists.
A second minor problem that I occasionally have experienced using PVC on submersibles is a tendency for the pipe and the electrical wire taped to it to contact the casing on pump start-up, and if the casing is steel, to eventually rub away the wire’s insulation. I never have used centralizers or spiders on my drop pipe; some folks swear by them, some swear at them. These, of course, probably would eliminate the rubbing of the submersible against the casing. I only have experienced this bare-wire phenomenon twice in my life, and it only happened to a very short section of the wire. I never have installed a jet pump using PVC, as jet pumps are pretty much a thing of the past here in Michigan. With all of the trials and tribulations over the last 50 years using different drop pipes, I would have to say that using PVC works very well in this
area. If we had really deep pump settings, I think I might have a different opinion. Since my last article, I successfully made it to the NGWA Expo at Las Vegas. This was my 36th in a row, and I believe 45th overall. To see the change from my first NGWA Convention/Expo o y in 1959 in Milwaukee, to today really is amazing. I got a chance to see a lott of old friends and a number of new w and interesting products. NGWA is to o be complimented on the choice of the e keynote speaker – he was just plain n outstanding. This is written a week before e Christmas, and we have no snow here e on the ground in southern Michigan; we have had some very cool nights, but nothing really cold – not very Christmas-like. As you read this, it will be getting spring in some parts of the country, and I hope you all are busy and working safely. ND
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ehabilitate: to restore, reinstate, to put back water deposits, biofouling or both, all water wells develop plugging problems over time. Second, a well owner in good condition, to re-establish. However you choose to define “rehabili- should know, or be able to find, information on the history tate,” when it comes to water wells, we all of the well – specifically, what were the original flow and know what we’re really after – get this thing the original drawdown. The relationship between these making water (money) again in the most economical way two is called specific capacity. Specific capacity, then, is possible. What if someone stated that they could not only water flow from the well measured in gallons per minute get your well working again, but also save money in en- divided by the pumping water level drawdown measured ergy costs, restore lost capacity, increase the life of the in feet. Once the well owner discovers the specific capacpump, improve water quality and extend the overall life of ity history for the well, he should make a habit of checkthe well just by doing quality well rehabilitation? Would ing the specific capacity every year at the same time, and you be interested? Eddie, a farmer in west Texas, was in- comparing it to previous years. And he should keep an terested. I’d like to use his story as a basis for answering eye on energy costs. If there is fluctuation in either of some water well rehabilitation questions from a business these parameters, suspect well plugging. However, keep in mind that monitoring specific capacperspective. Eddie has a water well in Crosby County that produced ity and energy costs alone to determine well plugging for a ¼-mile pivot (120 acres). He suspected the old well does not necessarily tell the whole story. Some theorize was beginning to plug, so he called his contractor to dis- that there exists a direct percentage link between specific cuss his suspicion. His contractor suggested rehabilitat- capacity drops and well plugging. For example, a specific ing the well with a technique utilizing both mechanical and chemical methods. Eddie agreed, and the rehabilitation was successful. Unplugging his well restored its lost capacity and increased the pumping water level by 50 feet. This change in drawdown saved him $1,036.80 in annual electricity costs alone, because the pump didn’t have to lift the water as far as it had the year before. As a bonus, the quality of his water improved significantly. The first question to be answered was how Eddie knew to suspect his well was beginning to plug. The answer is two-fold. First, research tells us that all water wells begin plugging, albeit in tiny amounts, from Before and after photos of a well screen on a well that has been the day they first begin to produce. Whether by hard rehabilitated.
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capacity drop of 20 percent in a well should indicate that the well is about 20-percent plugged. This theory is not always accurate. Documented cases have shown wells with specific capacity drops of relatively small amounts that end up, upon video-inspection, being almost totally plugged. Another question to examine is why Eddie’s contractor suggested both mechanical and chemical methods to clean his well. In broad terms, there are two major categories into which most rehab solutions are placed – mechanical and chemical. Again, in broad terms, mechanical solutions are initiated in the wellbore, and intended to resound through the screen, gravel pack (when used) and into the water-bearing formation to unstop water pathways. While these solutions have a place and work effectively in some contexts, their main constraints are the well itself. Mechanical energy, like chemical energy, must have direct contact with the well-plugging masses to work properly. Unfortunately, the well screen, gravel pack and even the formation all act to deflect mechanical energy from its intended targets. Chemicals, however, because they travel with and similarly to water, are capable of penetrating and dissolving plugging materials both in and around the wellbore and far out into the water-bearing formation. For this reason, using the proper chemistry to unstop water well plugging problems provides a thoroughness that mechanical energy alone is incapable of providing. The real well-plugging problems are not the soft biomasses, which easily are removed using either mechanical or chemical means. The bigger issues always are the extremely hard, cement-type deposits that plug water pathways on the well screen, in and around the gravel pack and all through the formation. Again, appropriate chemical solutions have advantages over purely mechanical means. Most mineral plugging is outside the well screen. Mechanical energy can’t penetrate deeply enough to impact those deposits. Moreover, even when mechanical solutions succeed in breaking up the hard minerals inside the well screen, they fall short in creating small enough pieces to be removed from the well. Chemicals, on the other hand, can break down these deposits completely, and hold them in suspension to be easily removed from the well. Also, they are able to impact mineral deposits far beyond the initial mechanical barriers. However, chemicals only affect that which they are able to contact. Recognizing this limitation, the best results for solving water well plugging problems are found by utilizing some combination of both mechanical and chemical methods. Eddie, from the example above, is just one of many success stories in the culture of well rehabilitation. Contractors are using techniques that utilize both mechanical and chemical methods to rehabilitate water wells. The alternatives are to drill new wells, or do nothing and hope for the best. But, by rehabbing those wells, they save money, restore lost capacity, increase the life expectency of the pump, improve water quality, and extend the overall life of the well for their owners. ND Matt McGinnis is an engineer with Cotey Chemical Corp., Lubbock, Texas.
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ow that another winter is upon us, and most of our work is outside, it might be a good time to touch on some of the preparations we should make to keep our equipment running in less-than-ideal conditions. As I’m presently working in the Williston Basin, where winters are known to be brutal, proper maintenance and preparation can be a matter of life
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good idea. In cold weather, batteries lose a lot of their cranking power, so if you need to replace yours, go with the most cranking amps that will fit. Fuel: Keep your tank pretty much full. There are a couple reasons for this. First, it helps prevent moisture condensation. Ice in the fuel system will ruin your day quicker’n an exwife with a warrant. Second, keeping your tank full is good insurance if you get caught in the field, in a blizzard, and have to wait for the roads to be cleared. For diesel engines, an antigelling additive is a must when it gets really cold. Tires: All-season tires are OK in most conditions, but in severe conditions, dedicated snow tires are a must. I use studded tires, which help a lot, but they are not legal in all areas. Chains are good idea, too, but I would only use them to get home from the rig; if I have to chain up to get out there, I don’t go. Don’t forget a tire gauge, either. When it gets cold, tire pressure goes down. This is fine at low speeds in the field; it increases traction. But, if you get on the freeway with low tire pressure and drive 70 mph for a couple hours, those tires are likely to heat up and blow out. That certainly will cause a failure to proceed. Antifreeze: It’s pretty common to top off a cooling system in hot weather. This eventually will dilute your antifreeze until you don’t have adequate protection in winter. Get it checked. Lights: Because nights are longer in winter, you are going to find yourself driving in the dark a lot more. Newer cars and trucks usually have a plastic cover over the headlights that collect road film about as fast as dogs collect fleas. Keep them clean. Another handy item is a good flash-
light, with fresh batteries. Oil: Manufacturers usually recommend a lighter grade of oil in severe winter conditions. It makes starting easier and warm-up quicker. The commercial oil-changing companies sometimes are aware of this and sometimes not. It is good to ask. If you are doing it yourself, look at the owner’s manual to get the right grade. These are some of the common maintenance items to get your truck ready for severe winter weather, but there are a lot more. I always carry a large amount of basic survival gear, such as the following: a week’s worth of food and water; a way to heat water; coffee; cold medicine, plus any prescriptions you might need; spare fuel, batteries, jumper cables, tow rope, road flares, and a spare tire and jack; a fire extinguisher, cell phone battery charger; spare clothes, underwear and socks; Arctic coveralls and Arctic boots; a 100-percent wool blanket; space blanket, an emergency spill kit, candles, a lighter and GPS. Dodge says my truck can seat six. Baloney! It seats me, and enough gear to see spring. The list could go on and on, but the one thing to remember: Be aware of your situation, consider the possible hazards and prepare for them. I’ve worked in some places that were, for one reason or another, less than safe. Extreme cold weather is just one more of them. You may find yourself in a situation where you have to rely on yourself and your resources for quite a while. Like the Boy Scouts say, be prepared. ND Even wearing his Cupid wings and looking for archery targets, Wayne Nash can be reached at [email protected].
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Efficient Blasthole Production by Joe Bradfield
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here are drillers, and then there are blasters. We’re blasters,” explains Don Burgess of Huntsville, Ontario. Burgess is one of the three owners of Rock Breakers 2007. Barry Genrick and Murray Keller are the other partners.
The three restructured their company in 2007, giving it the new name “Rock Breakers 2007” to distinguish themselves from the previous 14-yearold company, which itself was a continuation of the company that employed them early in their careers. They accepted executive responsibility for the company when it was offered to them upon the previous owner’s retirement. The difference between drillers and blasters, Burgess explains, is that “drillers will come, drill the holes, and then stand by and wait. We do the whole thing.” By “we” he was referring to his crew – his sons Shawn, Adam and Matt, and his son-in-law Scott Keller, who is the son of owner Murray Keller. All of them lay out the charges together, but only Shawn lays out the 9-foot-by-7-foot blasthole patterns, taking his job so seriously that Keller teases, “No one touches Shawn’s string,” which he uses to measure placement. He did that once, he remembers, thinking he would help out. The chuckles and smiles that followed are good-natured, yet the point clearly is made. Each of the crew respects the contributions of the others in certain well-established roles.
In Their Blood Burgess himself began drilling as his life’s career right away after school, having come from a construction family. Around Ontario, he says, “Drilling (Continued on Page 42) 40 | NATIONALDRILLER February 2012
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(Blasthole - Continued from Page 40) and mining are the main kind of construction around here. My dad was in construction. This is sort of the same thing.” A drive down King’s Highway 11 from Sudbury confirms that point. There are quarrying, drilling and mining operations of every size and purpose. Almost everyone is, has been, or is related to someone in the industry. The security agent at the Toronto airport had started in mining out of high school. A Sudbury cab driver had been in quarry work for 15 years before switching to his “city job.” The receptionist at the motel had driven a hauler. As for the Burgess family, it’s easy to tell that it’s in their blood. “I can’t see doing anything else,” Burgess says. His sons nod as he speaks, each repeating or adding: “There’s a lot of
variety. Every day is something new, something different. I could never be one of those guys who stands in one place all day doing the same thing.” This is the men’s vocation. It’s hard not to envy them for how much they enjoy their work and are loyal to each other.
Having a Blast Rock Breakers 2007 is a highly versatile company, with experience in a wide range of drilling and blasting, from carving out highway routes through solid granite, to structural demolition, to aggregate production – wherever blasters are needed. When they were awarded the King’s Highway 11 project, they looked into expanding the capabilities of their five-unit fleet of crawlers by adding a larger rig. It would be useful on the Highway 11 job, helping them open up the new quarry in Novar Township
where they would free up rock to crush for shoulder stone, but they also were looking to the future. A slightly bigger rig would enable them to drill larger blastholes and also speed up production drilling. Their choice was a radio remote-controlled Atlas Copco ROC D9 top-hammer surface crawler rig. While other operations in the area require larger, climate-controlled cabs for their crews, larger rigs are overkill for this company. Burgess says they would lose too much going with a larger unit. “They’re too stiff,” he says, referring to the lack of maneuverability. The ROC D9 lets them reach areas that a cabbed unit can’t get to.
Steep Slope Work Burgess likes the sure-footedness of the ROC D9 RCC: “It goes where the other drills can’t.” His boys agree. Shawn, who was running the
rig this particular day, drilling 30foot, 3 1⁄2-inch blast holes on a 30-degree-plus granite slope, agrees. “I like that winch. This is nothing. With that winch I’ve had it on, I bet, more than 50 degrees, and it’ll do more. You could hang it off a cliff with that winch.” None of their other drills have this feature. The rig is equipped with rod-handling, which supports the safety feature of having remote control. Shawn does not have to approach the crawler to add or take off steel, which was a 12-foot T45 on this job. Working the radio-control box from his chest harness kept Shawn well back from the rig as he maneuvered its dualoscillating treads up and over obstacles on the steep grade, shifting the body back as counterweight when the rig was on steep grades. The other rigs required the operators to be right at the rigs, working their fixed controls. Scott Keller volunteers with a grin that, for a while, they’d mark the rock with the words “Copco holes,” and draw arrows leading to each hole that was too difficult for the other crawlers. Shawn nods. “It’s true,” he affirms, “The hardest holes they started calling ‘Copcos.’”
Keeping the Crusher Busy The crew also likes its rate of penetration. Shawn says he gets at least three feet per minute in the granite, though he qualifies that, saying it varies, because there were some really tough veins in the rock he was working, with seams and gaps thrown in randomly. They also like the increased productivity resulting from this unit. One of the brothers says early on he’d heard from the crusher crew that they were anxious the team might not get them enough rock to work with. “But that was before we got here,” he notes. By their third day at the site, they had already produced 1,000 cubic meters in their first blast and were just about ready for the second, which would be much larger. They will drill more than 300 holes now per blast. “We gave them enough to keep them busy a while.” The huge pile of rock by the crusher near the entrance to the quarry erased any doubt. Burgess says he was sure they could take the whole hill out at once, but doing it in stages was the best way to ensure uniformity of material size, and orderly delivery for the excavator and trucks to haul to the crusher. Three blasts, the next larger than that initial one, will remove more than 17,000 cubic meters during this project, which Don says should take them only a couple weeks. And then the guys will move on to their next job, which, for this crew, should be – to coin a phrase – a blast. ND Joe Bradfield is senior writer for Ellenbecker Communications, an international communications firm specializing in the drilling, mining and construction industries. 42 | NATIONALDRILLER February 2012
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Cotey Chemical’s Liquid Descaler is a water well cleaning and maintenance product. Intended to facilitate rehabilitation, Liquid Descaler is designed to work well on iron bacteria and hard-to-dissolve mineral scales without the use of additional products. It is said to be safe on equipment, easy to use and environmentally friendly. Liquid Descaler is certified to the ANSI- and NSF-Standard 60 for use in all types of water wells. Cotey Chemical, Card No. 212
Welder/Generator Fabco Power delivers the HYDRO-ARC 7500, a hydraulically driven DC welder/ AC generator. Weighing 165 pounds, its compact size measures 27 inches-by-17 inches-by-10 inches. Environmentally clean and nonpolluting, the unit provides 120/240 volts, and includes an automatic current overload protection device. Attach your air compressor to convert to a three-in-one system. The complete unit is said to be maintenance-free. Fabco Power, Card No. 210
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TOOLING & ACCESSORIES Power Reels for Water Level Indicators Heron Instruments Inc. offers the dipper-T water level indicator with power. Featuring highvisibility yellow tape in lengths up to 3,000 feet, Heron Instruments provides power reels for tape lengths of 1,000 feet and more. Using a power reel should help make taking level readings in deep wells faster and less strenuous. All power reels are available in with a 12V or 120VDC. A large double frame helps enable easy fastening onto drill rigs or truck beds. Heron Instruments Inc., Card No. 207
Pumps and Parts For Drilling Mud Liberty Process Equipment Inc. carries in-stock pumps and pump parts for the most popular brands of LL-Frame progressive cavity pumps for drilling mud applications. Same-day shipping is available. Liberty Process Equipment Inc., Card No. 214
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Mid-Western LLC offers an auger hoist. Direct vertical lift and deep-seated tabs help make tripping long sections of hollow stem a time-saver. MidWestern LLC, Card No. 211
Drilling Products offers ALUMINUM drill pipe. High-strength and light in weight, this drill pipe’s benefits are said to include increased rig depth capacity, improved logistics, faster rotation and tripping, and lower fuel consumption. Aluminum drill pipe even permits helicopter drops in remote and hard-to-reach locations. Drilling Products, Card No. 217
System Enables Recycling of Drilling Fluids Mud Technology International Inc. manufactures the MCT-450. The MCT-450 recycles fluids by removing undesirable solids, allowing users to reuse drilling mud. With a 2,400-gallon two-section tank and 450-plusgpm cleaning capacity, the MCT-450 is sure to meet your drilling needs. Mud Technology International Inc., Card No. 216
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