Had a well drilled and there is quite a bit of drill 'spoils' some of which is fairly fluid drilling fluid. What is solution to the clean up? Tried to mix it into the sandy native soil with the dozer but seems reluctant to cooperate? Wait it out for a coupla weeks?? Here is what came off the rig. Here is a panoramic looking downslope (shallow slope at this site) of the runoff where I tried a slot and some back and forth mixing. Gave up for now. Thanks!
likely its just bentonite clay, wait it out, then pile to one side...
I had to wait it out at my house for a month for it to mostly dry out. It never did completely dry out, but got dry enough to handle. Dug a hole off to the side and pushed the still sloppy drill mud into it. It is bentonite, nothing harmful, just a nuisance.
Will take weeks for that to do more than skin over. Bentonite is great for holding liquids to the level it will appear dry but has just done that skin over. Is a clay and so not too much trouble, what was the drill for? Water? As noted moving it downslope to a holding trench will contain it then continue to mix it out of slurry to more solid then cover and ignore.
The clay is at a consistency to most effectively stick together and carry out the drillings, which is also the consistency most difficult to mix. So you can either push it all to a trench, or mix it in to the native soil. You can push it as is, but to mix it in to the soil it will need to be dried by "windrowing" and turning it once it skins over, then it will crumble and mix with dry soil. OR add more water and mix to get the clay liquid enough to spread into the native soil, I don't know if I'd want to try that due to the amount of water required, and the messiness of the process.