Originally Posted By: Army Colonel
Thanks for the reply. With the pudding like mess, do you think like John Fitzgerald mentioned in his reply that rather than waiting for it to dry, just have a dozer push it along to a bucket and then dump it over the back of the dam?


If the sludge is left in the basin of the pond, it will not dry out for a few years, except on top. Down a bit from the surface, it may never dry out. The only way to dry sludge is to put it on ground where it can dry by draining out the sides at the bottom of the piles of sludge. We piled our sludge on a slight slope, and it still took a year before it was spreadable. I got a very small bulldozer to spread it, as a larger one would have still sunk into the slightly wet sludge.