Mid-shift, a water truck pulls up to refill.
The engine stays running, the operator waits, production pauses...
That truck could be out of circulation for half an hour.
Multiply that across:
🔹Four or five trucks
🔹Multiple refills per shift
🔹Multiple shifts per day
The cost compounds quickly.
During that time:
❌ No dust suppression is happening
❌ No roads are being maintained
❌ Fuel is being burned at idle
❌ Labour is tied up
The real loss is not water flow, it is lost coverage time.
Now consider the same site, but refill time is reduced from 30 minutes to less than five.
Suddenly the equation changes.
🔹 Each truck completes more cycles per shift.
🔹 More water is distributed per hour.
🔹 Coverage improves without increasing fleet size.
On some sites, operators have reduced the number of trucks required simply because refill cycles were shortened.
That means:
✅ Less capital tied up in additional trucks
The gain is not just speed; it is structural efficiency.
On a remote mining site in Central Australia, one of our client's truck refill times dropped from 30 minutes to under five after installing a correctly sized 12-inch standpipe pumpset.
That change increased active coverage time and reduced fleet idle hours immediately.
Allflo General Manager Scott Pederick told Australian Mining:
“In some instances, we have reduced the fill time from 30 minutes to four to five minutes.”
That difference reshapes how a fleet performs.
Fast fill times do not happen by accident.
They happen by design:
🔹 Pump.
🔹 Standpipe.
🔹 Pipework.
🔹 Controls.
All matched. All sized. All configured together.
When components are assembled separately on site, variables creep in.
❌ Flow mismatches.
❌ Priming delays.
❌ Control inconsistencies.
When the system is designed as a single package, those variables disappear.
✅ Transport is simplified.
✅ Setup is faster.
✅ Performance is predictable.
As shown below, our Standpipe & Pump Packages arrive ready to work.
Mining and civil environments are not forgiving.
Water sources vary. Access can be limited. Compliance requirements are strict.
A standpipe system must account for:
🔹Flow requirements
🔹Head pressure
🔹Duty cycle
🔹Site terrain
🔹Relocation frequency
🔹Safety compliance
Typical configurations may include:
✅ Self-priming pumps for reliable operation
Each package is specified to suit the site.
Not generic. Not improvised.
Engineered around how it will be operated, serviced and relied upon.
Truck fill time is not just a convenience metric.
It affects:
🔹Fleet productivity
🔹Labour efficiency
🔹Fuel consumption
🔹Capital deployment
🔹Dust suppression effectiveness
When viewed at system level, the cost of slow refill cycles becomes clear.
And so does the value of getting it right.
If your water trucks are spending too long at the fill point, the solution is not more trucks.
It is faster water delivery.
Our standpipe and pump packages are engineered for:
🔹Rapid high-volume truck filling
🔹Reduced fleet idle time
🔹Reliable operation in remote and harsh environments