Waste Water Solution -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

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A father-son team from Stanley plans to build the first stand-alone lagoon system in North Dakota to handle sewage wastewater generated by thousands of workers at oil rigs, man camps and worker housing.

State regulators say a plan by Curt and Beau Vachal, owners of MonDak Water and Septic Services, to build one and possibly several more in the oil patch could help solve the problem of a growing amount of such waste and fewer places to take it.
 
North Dakota's oil patch pumps out nearly 510,000 barrels of oil every day and in the range of 500,000 gallons of sewage wastewater from rigs, man camps and worker housing in the same 24 hours.

The first crude product is very valuable and the second is very costly, the consequence of 10,000 workers using at least 50 gallons of water every day to shower, shave and do their daily business.

Waste water solutions interest most folks about as much as parking structures in urban areas, but both are essential. Good luck to the Vachals. 

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By the way, for archival purposes, there are at least a few wells with the Vachal name:

• 19352, 1,290, Hess, EN-Vachal-155-93-0532H, Mountrail
• 19403, 701, CLR, Vachal 1-27H, Alkali Creek, Bakken  
• 19764, 3,249, BEXP, Vachal 3-34 1H, Mountrail

Elsewhere the name appears:

• Steward Vachal was the primary shareholder in Grizzly Wire Rope and Chain.