Concentrating on a few factors reveals that the procedures employed to dewater soil differ. Whitewater’s  designers employ distinct approaches for coarse and fine-grained soils. It is possible that coarse-grained soils can be dewatered simply by allowing drainage into ditches, slumps, and wells and then pumping the collected water to a predetermined disposal point. Consult with the experts at Whitewater if further filtering (such as discharge rules for dissolved iron, which are controlled in certain regions of Canada) is necessary; this may involve storing water for sampling.

However, gravity drainage is incompatible with fine-grained soils. Drainage will be harmed and could become inefficient or extremely sluggish. Due to the fact that this form of soil dewatering involves forced consolidation, selecting the right dewatering procedures for ground water control requires the knowledge of Whitewater’s specialists. These include electro-osmosis, big casing boreholes with submersibles, and well point dewatering, also known as sand point dewatering. These can be used successfully in combination or independently in certain circumstances.  Along with drainage and seepage, Whitewater engineers incorporate geosynthetic filtration into our system designs to ensure long-term success and healthier water disposal. This was demonstrated in many recent projects completed and maintained by the Whitewater team in Eastern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where the ground water was highly turbid and the Whitewater-installed system removed all particulates without the need for further discharge water filtering.

To conclude, conventional dewatering techniques primarily utilize gravity flow methods such as open ditches, bore wells, and submersible pumps, as well as well point or sand point systems and other vacuum dewatering applications.