Why do you need a sediment filter?

Silt or sediment is a contaminant. When pumping water out of excavations, you have a legal obligation to filter out sediment before discharging into surface water drains or natural waterways. When working by the roadside, you also have a responsibility to keep pavements and roads clean and safe. Muddy or oily water can create a slip or skid risk.

Failure to abide by the law can lead to fines, prosecution, loss of contracts and clean-up costs. If you work in utility maintenance, fines and unbudgeted costs can wipe out your wafer-thin margins.

These rugged and reusable sediment filter bags provide an easy-to-use and cost-effective alternative to settlement tanks and vacuum tankers. Green Rhino dewatering filters clean water to regulator-approved standards. You may also know these filters by other names such as sediment dewatering filter bags, silt bags, filter socks or silt socks.

What are the benefits of a sediment filter?

With a Green Rhino Sediment Filter and a pump you have a dewatering solution you can deploy within minutes. It’s the easy way to comply with the law and much more cost-effective than using third party contractors to clean or remove the contaminated water.

Your workers are under pressure to get the work done. Help encourage compliant behaviour by providing environmental solutions that are hard-wearing, effective and quick to deploy.

You may also be interested in our Best Practice Guide to Dewatering Excavations.

Scalable & cost-effective system

Green Rhino dewatering filters offer an easy to deploy solution which can be scaled up to achieve higher flow rates. Up to eight sediment dewatering filters can be harnessed using the Green Rhino Manifold System. This reusable system delivers the flow rate and filtration capacity of a settlement tank without the expensive hire costs.