The Premier Service Provider for Restoring the Capacity of Wet Infrastructure

Using USST’s unique, GritGone Process®, 22 cubic yards of sand and grit was removed from a splitter box while it remained online and without resorting to confined space entry.

A 110-foot section of Miami-Dade stormwater pipe was experiencing reduced capacity due to the buildup of sand. Learn how the USST crew accessed the pipe and successfully removed 32 tons of material under surcharged conditions without a drain down or confined space entry.

Tallahassee’s lift station was due for scheduled maintenance, needing both FOGs on the surface and sand and grit on the bottom removed. Equipped to switch between vacuum and downhole pumping, USST’s Combination^3® equipment allowed crew to remove debris from the water surface and structure bottom without additional equipment or repositioning.

A large section of interceptor sewer pipe running alongside the Hillsborough River in the City of Tampa was experiencing reduced capacity due to a buildup of sand and grit. The USST crew maneuvered through 660 feet of pipe under the river while taking a hard 115-degree turn in order to remove 70 CY of material successfully.

A wastewater treatment facility located in Davie, FL was experiencing increased energy costs due to reduced capacity and treatment efficiency from accumulated sand and material in its infrastructure. More than 180 CY of material was removed from Davie’s 20-foot high surge tank while it remained in full operation.

A wastewater treatment facility in the City of Jasper, FL, was experiencing increased energy costs due to reduced capacity and treatment efficiency from accumulated sand and grit in their infrastructure. More than 44 tons of sand and grit were removed from the facility.

A shipping barge berthed at Port Arthur, TX, had a hardened heavy oil/asphalt petroleum product at the bottom of its three compartments of over 30,000 barrels of capacity (total). The client had been trying to clean the barge (remove the material) for several months, without success. Because the product had set up for some time, it had the consistency of rubber and could not be easily removed.

A private retirement facility located in Sumter County, FL, is one of the country's largest (and still growing) retirement communities in the country. With close to 100,000 residents, this golf course community has an expansive network of storm water infrastructure to accommodate all the residential growth. Their problem was that a 60-inch stormwater line had a large deposit of sand that had accumulated, blocking the flow of water inside the pipe.

The City of Starke's grit chamber had an estimated 4 feet of sand submerged under 6 feet of water. Using the Model 949 Combination^3® Truck and the GritGone Process® , we pulled 90% of the sand from the grit chamber into our debris tank in less than three hours, without taking the system offline.

The Town of Branford, FL, was experiencing loss of detention volume and reduced water quality as a result of accumulated sand and grit on the bottom of their aeration basin and digester. The roughly 200,000 gallon per day facility had a large quantity of sand submerged under water. The accumulated sand and grit had reduced the grit chamber's efficiency and potentially exposed other elements in the treatment system to a buildup of sediments and particulates.