Pro-Tex™ HighFlow Dewatering Bags

Pro-Tex™ HighFlow Dewatering Bags

Pro-Tex™ HighFlow Dewatering Bags provide an effective way to collect harmful peat based sediments from dirty water pumped out of excavation works (such as foundations, pipe line construction, sewer and utility trenches, waterways and lakes) that would otherwise pollute the surrounding environment.

Traditionally settlement methods (such as straw bale structures or settlement ponds/tanks) are often ineffective. They also rely on slow water movement, long settlement times, are expensive and time consuming tank maintenance which involve large works areas.

While the small pore sizes of standard dewatering bags can clog quickly when pumping peat based sediment. Pro-Tex™ HighFlow bags were therefore developed to offer a practical compromise to cope with such conditions.

Pro-Tex™ HighFlow Dewatering Bags are an efficient, practical, quick, simple and cost effective alternative solution to manage this ongoing environmental problem of removing suspended solid pollutants from pumped water on construction sites.

Sediment-laden water is simply pumped into the high quality filter bags, which trap the solids inside and allow filtered water to flow freely out through the high-flow geotextile fabric to disperse into the surrounding ground or another collection point.

Pro-Tex™ HighFlow Dewatering Bags can also be used for gravity fed applications such as outfall pipes from site drainage or lagoons.

The silt filter bags provide a passive non-mechanical solution, without the use of excessive or specialist machinery (other than possible lifting equipment when full), and do not require a large work area.

The sediment bags are also light, compact and easy to store, with minimal cleaning up required - when full, just dispose of the bag and replace with another bag.