Who Needs Submersible Pump Hire in Perth?

Our hire customers come to us with one simple problem to solve. They say, "I need to move fluid from point A to point B”. In many this will be an urgent situation so people are interested in a very rapid response.

While the circumstances vary greatly, most of our pump hire customers come from a few main industries.

Very often we’re hiring pumps to;

- Underground mines
- Process plants
- Construction operators
- Civil contractors

Dewatering

Underground mines use water in their production processes. This waste water needs to be removed from the tunnels so the drilling schedule is met. Dewatering can involve very heavy dirty water that contains all manner of materials, water that may damage normal pumping equipment. These customers need to hire pumps like our Raptor. Alternatively they might also use the Jetguard pump which is specifically designed to handle dewatering where shotcrete is present.

Environmental Protection

Mining operations also require pumps for environmental protection. They need to trap water that forms at the back of tailing stands. They have to prevent this water from running outside their mining lease. For example they will be keen to avoid run off contaminating a nearby national park or waterways.

Natural Events

Civil contractors are dealing with ground water from mother nature and rain. They will often need to clear areas in order to allow major earth works to progress.

Pipe Laying

Companies responsible for laying major pipelines will sometimes encounter natural ground water coming out of a spring. Submersible pumps will be required for groundwater suppression so that their work can progress on schedule.

Sewer Diversion

Civil contractors sometimes need to divert a sewer pipe in order to replace old pipes with new pipes. They can't tell everyone to stop flushing their toilet or showering. In cases like this they use bypass pumping. They will bypass the whole line, dig up the old pipe, replace it and then reconnect the new system.

Dredging

The dredging of Fremantle harbour is another example of where a submersible pump might be required. The silt buildup is pumped out mixed up with the water from the harbour. The silt is gathered and the water is returned to the harbour.

Shut Downs

Processing plants have regular times when essential maintenance is carried out. This can take any time from three days to seven days. During this time the plant will be shut down.

Plant operators sometimes need to access a tank to clean or resurface the inside. They have to drop someone in there to remove the waste water, repaint it and then put it back into operation. Submersible pumps are often used in this context to clear out waste water used during the cleaning process.

Slurry Pumping

All your processing factories have slurries to maintain. The ScatPump is a very popular hire for cleaning slurries.

Spillages

Processing plants can also have spillages on site. An example of this is the Kwinana Strip of industrial sites. Those process plants will have concrete sumps. These will be a metre and a half by two metres deep. These operators will have pumps sitting in there. The plants were built so that in the event of a spillage, everything goes down into one spot where it can be pumped out or recycled.

Wash Bays

Wash bays used for washing down cars will have drains that contain a small submersible pump to recycle water back through a filtering system.

Our hire customers come to us with one simple problem to solve. In each of these hiring situations there will be a set of variables relating to the type of waste water and the logistics of the job.

There are also the important factor of how fast the job needs to be done. Information like this is all gathered on our hiring form. Our objective is to match each job with the most appropriate hire pump and get your "fluid from point A to point B" sorted.