Posts Tagged ‘tank cleaning’
Past Project: Decommissioning a Used Oil Storage Tank in Helena, Montana
The City of Helena contracted with Olympus Technical Services, Inc. to decommission and remove a 2,000-gallon waste oil tank from the yard of their vehicle maintenance facility at 3001 E. Lyndale Ave. The city had been using used oil stored in the tank to heat the shop, but sludge had built up over time and…
Read MorePast Project: Investigation and Analysis of Solids in Municipal Storage Tank Leads to Cleaning/Removal
Staff at the City of Helena’s Missouri River Water Treatment Plant (MRWTP) had intended to repurpose a steel storage tank previously used to store alum. Even though the tank had been cleaned, when sodium hydroxide (lye) was added to it, it created a chemical reaction that burned a hole in the tank wall and left…
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