From an ENERGYCLEAN customer, the Compliance Officer and assistant corporate maintenance manager for a mid sized convenience store chain:
“One of our sites was pumping slowly, so I dispatched a tech to go ‘check it out,’ change the filters and get back to me. The tech changed the filters and brought me some residue that he cleaned out of the filter canister. It looked like leaves. Yes, leaves from trees! Neither one of us believed that leaves could get in our tank — how is that possible?
I called ENERGYCLEAN to come out and clean my tanks and further investigate. I met them at the site and they began to clean my tank. One of their steps in their process is to pull the sub-motor. They physically remove it from the tank, and then they use this port for suction and discharge during the cleaning process.
The first suction draw from the bottom of the tank under the sub-motor not only revealed pecan leaves, but whole pecans! We couldn’t believe it. Pecan nuts in our tanks! Further investigation revealed that a pecan tree hung over the tank bed, and during the fall of the year when the trees were dropping leaves and pecans, they would accumulate over the tank bed. (The tank bed was on the lower side of the site).
Our theory was as follows: Along comes the delivery driver, opens the cap to the spill bucket and the drop tube, and (you guessed it), pecan leaves and pecan nuts fall into the tank. They eventually migrate towards the suction source (sub-motor) and now you have slow flow.
Because ENERGYCLEAN does more than just clean tanks, we found a problem none of us had even imagined and caught it before it caused major damage.”