Bay West is dredging Gruber's Grove Bay in Lake Wisconsin using a Mud Cat™ MC-2000 Dredge 

May 2001 - Bay West, Inc., an environmental and industrial services company with headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, has purchased an Ellicott® hydraulic dredge for use in contaminated sediment cleanup projects.

The Mud Cat™ MC-2000 dredge utilizes a 24-inch diameter, 22,000 pound torque horizontal auger to combine sediments and water into a slurry that is hydraulically transported to a dewatering area via a 10-inch pipe.

Mud Cat™ MC-2000 Auger Dredge

Bay West says the dredge is ideal for multiple types of projects in remote locations, is transportable on one truck, minimizes turbidity with an adjustable shroud, and is efficient in lakes, bays, and rivers.

The company says the MC-2000 is effective on various types of operations, from removal of sediment and sludge to recovery of fly ash and tailings.

The Mud Cat™ MC-2000 is one-truck transportable

Bay West is using the dredge to remove contaminated river sediments  from Gruber's Grove Bay in Lake Wisconsin.  The dredge is pumping the material into geotextile bags, which will be buried for permanent containment.

The new MC-2000 excavator design showing
the heavy duty auger design, massive ladder structure
for downward cutting force and submerged pump 
located directly behind the auger for maximum 
material density in the slurry discharge.

Bay West provides environmental, industrial, marine, and emergency services to commercial and government customers nationally and has offices in St. Paul, Minnesota and Kansas City, Kansas, and project offices in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Kellogg, Idaho, Hastings, Nebraska, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Source:  Bay West, Inc. Press Release