For years, onsite wastewater management was slow, messy, and expensive. It wasn’t uncommon for haulers to spend an hour or more unloading at a receiving station, fighting against clogged bar screens with rakes in hand.
Instead of relying on these screens that constantly needed scraping, they tested a vibrating sieve system borrowed from the mining, oil, and wastewater industry.
The result: faster flow, cleaner output, and far less time wasted on maintenance.
The process sees an intake of up to 400 gallons a minute… Meaning: a single truck that took an hour or more to unload could be cleared almost as fast as it could be pumped out. This could double the amount of work the hauler can process in a day. That success became a turning point for Cleanwater Farm’s operations.
The Muckraker does one thing exceptionally well: it removes trash and debris quickly and cleanly.
As the waste moves across its vibrating sieve, water drains back into holding tanks while trash and debris is compacted for disposal. If it has a diameter larger than 3/16 of an inch, it vibrates into an auger that compacts the solid waste. The screened wastewater is held in tanks to await transport to Cleanwater Farm, while the compression leaves everything else lighter and drier.
What used to be 6 bags of wet waste with a bar screen can now fit into a single 50 gallon bag.
The Muckraker is built with minimal maintenance and maximum reliability in mind. More importantly: It’s proof that the farm’s closed-loop system, from collection to return, isn’t theory. It’s tested and currently working as you read this.
From the ground up, Cleanwater Farm was built to handle waste responsibly and turn it into something sustainable.
The Muckraker fits that mission perfectly as another efficient tool in the kit of Cleanwater Farm. It keeps operations moving, cuts labor time dramatically, and returns clean water to the system where it belongs.
The Cleanwater way is about solving problems honestly and designing smarter systems. The Muckraker is the clearest example of that in action: an invention that started with a question, took shape in the field, and ended up changing the game.
Read the next post: Biochar: Turning Waste into Gold (for yourself and the environment)