Designing a system to treat a difficult water source?

Concerned whether the treatment design will achieve the desired water quality?

Want to optimize a treatment process design?

These are questions that can be answered with a Tonka Pilot Study. Our fully equipped pilot trailers are available for on-site testing with a Tonka technician to assist with set-up and operational training.

Pilot Capabilities

Our pilot capabilities include on-site bench testing, preliminary assessment testing, and performance testing for the following:

- Iron and manganese removal
- Radium removal
- Arsenic removal
- Color removal
- Turbidity removal
- Ion exchange applications
(anion and cation)
- Membrane applications
- DAF applications
- Simul-Wash™ backwashing method

Surface and Groundwater Applications

Tonka’s pilot trailers are capable of piloting surface waters or groundwaters by incorporating chemical feed, flocculation, clarification, aeration, detention, and filtration through several different media configurations. Tonka also has several fully equipped crated units available for less sophisticated pilot studies.

Experienced, Reliable Service

An experienced Tonka service technician is available to perform the on-site pilot study. A complete report, including process recommendations, equipment sizing and layout options is available within 30 – 45 days after the completion of the pilot testing.

Steel price inflation has significance to Tonka, our fabrication shops, and our customers. Raw materials typically account for 25-50% of the total cost of a vessel. Thus a 29% increase in steel prices would directly cause a 7-15% increase in the cost of a fabricated tank.

Eventually, the higher costs would flow into the pricing of steel-based system components such as valves, gauges, and fabricated parts. Ultimately, major increases in steel costs will be reflected in project costs. Thus it is in everyone’s best interest to expedite decision making on pending projects. Pending bids should be advertised quickly. Recently bid jobs should be converted to P.O.’s allowing early release of heads and shells to avoid re-pricing. Most importantly, budgetary estimates on projects in design should be modified to reflect the new market realities.

Tonka Territory Managers welcome opportunities to update budgetary numbers on any prospective project.