Landfill Project - North Wales

A Hippowash Classic provides the perfect solution

MWH Associates Limited, part of the Merseyside-based waste management specisalists MWH Group approached Hippowash^® to provide a wheel wash solution for their newly-developed site near Wrexham, North Wales.

The Hafod quarry has been actively extracting clay and supplying local tileries for over 100 years.  Designing, planning and building the landfill operation has taken 5 years to complete. The final part of the jigsaw was putting in the appropriate infrastructure to cope with up to 80 vehicle movements per day.

Mark Griffiths (Operations Director) explained "It was quite obvious to us that we would need a wheel wash system on the site.  We looked at systems from two manufacturers and we chose the Hippowash^® becasue we were impressed by its robustness. We'd seen it in operation in similar environments to ours, so we could see for ourselves that it does the job.  Having the water clarifier for the water recycling element of the system was very important to us. We know it makes even the fines drop out of the wash water, making silt management a very straight forward procedure."

MWH Associates Limited is part of the Mersy Waste Holdings (MWH) Group which provides waste management services throughout Merseyside including the disposal of household and commercial waste. The company also operates a number of waste transfer stations and household waste recycling centres throughout Merseyside and Cheshire. The company is proactively involved in diverting waste from landfill through its materials recycling plant and composting facilities in Merseyside.