Rotary Surface and Sub-Surface Washers Add Auxiliary Filter Cleaning

General Filter surface washers provide a high quality low-cost media scour system that uniformly distributes pressurized water over the entire filter bed using spray nozzles attached to rotating arms. Standard construction is red brass with optional stainless steel construction. Works well to retrofit and existing water only wash granular media filter.

Surface washers and sub-surface washers let you:

Scour filter media during backwash

Add auxiliary cleaning to new or existing filters

Break up mudballs formed on the media surface

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Features and Benefits

Features:

Hydraulically driven.
Media surface scouring
Corrosion resistant materials

Benefits:

Simple design
Low maintenance
Easy to operate
Prevents mudballs and channeling
Increases backwash efficiency
Low maintenance

Surface washers provide auxiliary cleaning used in conventional water wash filter systems. Construction is of red brass with stainless steel as an available option. Surface washer header pipe, drop pipe, rotating arm assemblies with spray nozzles, and stabilizers are included as standard equipment.

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