Mine Water Treatment and Reclamation
- For the past 13 years, 8 of which were on a full-time onsite basis, GILA GEOLOGICAL staff have completed multiple construction assignments as the owner’s Project Manager. Starting in 2005 GILA GEOLOGICAL was the Project and Construction Manager for a US $24MM high density water treatment plant and ancillary facilities located at 11,300 feet. Design components included over 40,000 lf of HDPE pipeline, one pump station, a 160-ft diameter clarifier, solution handling facilities consisting of two 212,000 gallon neutralization/aeration tanks, two lime slurry tanks, a SCADA system, radio telemetry, automated pH and turbidity instrumentation, video monitoring, and two 20-acre freeze/thaw sludge disposal beds.