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Irrigation Solutions

1. How can I determine a good, movable pre-wet system for crop growth? Details

   Growing crops requires precise irrigation and water placement. Rain for Rent offers complete irrigation design and engineering. A good pre-wet system needs reliable mainline and strategically placed lateral runs. An efficient clear water agricultural pump can make the difference in the growth of crops. An engineered system from Rain for Rent can provide the best use of every inch of your land and even allow for movement around your land.

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2. How can I set up temporary irrigation for large park renovation projects? Details

   Rain for Rent is known for irrigation. We provide a wide variety of irrigation systems for temporary and permanent applications. Rain for Rent manufactures our own aluminum pipe for temporary applications, but also designs and sells systems that are permanently installed for agriculture, municipal, construction and any other large-scale irrigation need.

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Pumping Solutions

1. How can I pump across a road without stopping vehicle traffic? Details

   Rain for Rent designed heavy duty road crossings, sometimes referred to as road ramps, to make pumping across roads easy. Offered in both 12 and 20 foot lengths, the galvanized road crossings were constructed with federal bridge compliance of 20,000 lbs. per single axle rating. They are designed to efficiently route water under vehicle without sacrificing significant head loss. Safety is always key, and each road crossing is equipped with DOT safety reflectors and safety flags.

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2. How can I determine which portable pump would work for crop irrigation? Details

   The 4RB clear water pump is the most highly recommended Rain for Rent agricultural pump. It provides up to 1,600 gallons per minute of water with a small footprint, making it easy to tow to your nearest water source and pump during variable water levels. The 4RB also provides up to 250 feet of head, allowing you to pump longer distances and up steeper inclines. When your water source runs too low, the pump features automatic shutdown when dry to avoid any damage and cost to the farmer.

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3. How can I save on diesel fuel costs when performing high head pumping? Details

   Rain for Rent chooses PowerPrime™ Pumps as its rental fleet provider because of superior fuel economy and pumping abilities. Pumps like our XHH125 extra high head pump are able to produce extreme high head flows with lower engine RPMs. This provides you the same pumping ability as competitor's pumps at a much lower fuel cost to you. Whether you are a hydrotesting a pipeline or providing temporary water supplies on construction projects, there is a more fuel efficient pump option available from Rain for Rent.

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Spill Containment Solutions

1. How can I prevent oil-filled transformers from spilling during transport? Details

   Upgrades and construction often require transformers to be moved short or long distances on a jobsite. Don't risk the chance of spilling harmful or toxic oils and fluids during transportation. By utilizing Rain for Rent's Transport Spillguard you can set up a temporary containment berm on any truck trailer for transport. This Spillguard is not limited to transformers. It can be used under any equipment during transport to protect the environment.

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System Design

1. How can I hold or handle sewer flows when repairs are needed at a waste water treatment facility? Details

   Rain for Rent offers scalable solutions for waste containment for municipal waste water treatment plants and systems. When treatment plants go offline, the flow doesn't stop coming. Rain for Rent will create a system to temporarily contain waste, bypass waste to an alternate treatment point, or design a custom system to fit your needs utilizing our full line of high flow pumps, large tanks and pipe.

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2. How can I prevent track out from a hazardous soil excavation project? Details

   An eastern U.S. contractor preparing to do excavation on a site with hazardous material in the soil wanted to prevent tacking any possible material off of the jobsite. Rain for Rent installed a Conline Wheel Wash system that would provide up to 150 daily truck movements for medium soiling even in bad weather. The solution proved efficient as the contractor had portability for future relocation with the Wheel Wash system.

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3. How can I temporarily expand my wheel line irrigation system? Details

   An Idaho farmer looking to expand his wheel line irrigation to additional fields over multiple acres asked Rain for Rent to provide him an extension to his existing system. To help improve the grower’s system, Rain for Rent provided a quote for two wheel lines with 5-foot wheels, 4-inch lateral pipes, and sprinklers. The system will be powered by crop king wheel moves with gas-powered hydraulic motor.

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4. How can a municipality plan ahead for sewer and flood emergencies? Details

   City planners reached out to Rain for Rent to develop emergency action plans for pump suppliers in the event of a sewer line break. The city said it needed a company it could contact by phone or email 24 hours a day. Together with the city we developed an emergency response plan to ensure pumps and crew would always be just a phone call away when needed.

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Filtration Solutions

1. How can Rain for Rent help with municipal water heat exchanger hydrotesting? Details

   Municipal heat exchangers require a large quantity of water for hydrotesting purposes. Rain for Rent offers complete water storage and filtration systems that permits a municipal entity, or its selected contract hydrotest company, the chance to save water and conserve water on large hydrotest projects. By using steel frac tanks to capture used hydrotest water and running it through a filtration system, used hydrotest water is quickly filtered and clean. This will speed up your hydrotest process, making the water ready for re-use or environmentally friendly discharge.

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2. How can a contractor filter HVAC hydrotest water? Details

   A contractor testing the plumbing and HVAC system in a 13 story building reached out to Rain for Rent. The test water had to be pumped through the building’s pipes and then directed to a temporary tank. From there it would be filtered to meet city standards and discharged into the sewage treatment system.

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3. How can I avoid costs in transporting contaminated fluid? Details

   An environmental remediation contractor was hired to treat soil at an aging automobile service station. The contractor needed to pump groundwater to a tank, pass it through a carbon filter, then discharge to the publicly owned treatment system. The temporary nature of this Rain for Rent designed system allowed the environmental contractor to save money on fluid transportation fees and treat the contaminated soil and water on site.

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4. How can Rain for Rent help me reduce iron in produced water? Details

   With the cost of fuel continually rising, a contractor approached Rain for Rent for a solution to reduce iron levels from thousands of feet of aging pipeline. The high levels of iron prevented safe disposal through the public treatment system. Using media filtration and portable water quality monitoring the water could be continually filtered until it reached iron levels safe enough for discharge into sewer treatment.

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Construction Solutions

1. How can I protect spillguards when installing over gravel or rocks? Details

   Rain for Rent's SolidGround™ Traction Mats provide a more affordable alternative to plywood and rubber mats when installing spillguards under heavy equipment over rocks, gravel and slightly uneven surfaces. SolidGround™ Traction mats, unlinke plywood, will not retain moisture, will not de-laminate and will last the entire duration of your project without need for replacement. So if you are looking for the best way to protect your jobsite and your spillguards, look to renting SolidGround™ Traction Mats.

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2. How can Rain for Rent help me with dewatering for bridge construction? Details

   When planning construction or maintenance on bridge pilings, Rain for Rent and Portadam ™ have partnered to provide a one-stop solution. With the portable cofferdams in place, a dewatering pumping system will be installed to keep your jobsite dry and safe from the surrounding water.

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3. How can a temporary forcemain help during infrastructure upgrades? Details

   During ongoing infrastructure upgrades to a public sewage treatment plant, Rain for Rent provided 2,300-feet of HDPE pipe and pumping equipment to bypass the existing lines. Both aluminum and HDPE pipe were considered, but the project duration made HDPE the clear choice during infrastructure upgrades.

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Tank Solutions

1. How can Rain for Rent help with effluent water storage and suspended solids removal? Details

   When treating effluent water from an industrial water treatment plant, or any source of water that many contain suspended solids, this water must be filtered and treated properly before being discharged. Rain for Rent offers a variety of weir water storage tanks and boxes for solids settling. For water mixed with oils, the Oil Water Separator systems are an effective treatment method. Best of all, these solids removal methods are powered by gravity.

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2. How can I be OSHA compliant when I need workers on top of Frac tanks? Details

   Rain for Rent offers a Frac Tank Lifeline System (FTLS) that easily installs on any frac tank farm setup. Coupled with SolidGround™ Traction Mats, you can rest assured that your team will be safe and protected on top of tanks throughout the frac.

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3. How can I capture pipeline pigging fluids? Details

   A contractor working on cleaning existing natural gas pipelines via a pigging cleaning method required temporary storage to hold the pipeline liquids (90% compressor oil). Rain for Rent’s 21,000 gallon steel manifold tanks provide the storage and scalability needed for this vital pipeline project work.

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4. How can Rain for Rent help during tank refurbishment? Details

   When large water-holding tanks require necessary maintenance, there is no need to saddle your business with the cost of replacing lost water or disposing of your produced water.

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