The problems in the utilization of the sediments of the water management at the enterprises of the iron and steel industry have been considered. The characteristics of the sediments formed during the cleaning the circulating waters and production waste waters from the main sectoral production have been presented. The results of the own investigations into processing the considered sediments as well as data of the domestic and foreign scientific and technical literature have also been presented. The recommendations for the implementation of the technical solutions for preparing the sediments to recycle