Truck-Water Management Stockton CA

Source: CONCRETE PRODUCER MAGAZINE
Publication date: March 1, 2008

By Rick Yelton

While fuel costs are high, there's another commonly used liquid whose cost also is steep: water.

For producers, water has two types of costs. First, there are the direct costs. These include the traditional costs of the batching water and other processes, such as water used for cleaning trucks and cooling aggregates. And now in many operations, there's the additional cost of treating the water that can be either recycled or discharged. Fortunately, onsite meters easily monitor these water volumes.

But more difficult to measure are the indirect costs of water use. For instance, there's a potential cost when water is used to inappropriately retemper a fresh load. And now in more places, there's the potential cost when wash water is excessively used to clean at jobsites.

Producers often find it difficult to contain these types of indirect water usage. These are real-time activities that can have post-job consequences. It's practically impossible for a dispatcher to monitor every truck all the time. And when they can be measured, it is often limited to a single meter that measures the water as it enters the barrel from the saddle tank.

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