Trenton, New Jersey is the state capital and the county seat of Mercer County. This city sits adjacent to the Delaware River, the dividing line between the New Jersey and Pennsylvania border.

Trenton and Princeton are the two main cities in the Trenton-Princeton metropolitan statistical area. The population was 90,871 in the 2020 census. The Philadelphia Metropolitan area sits just to the west.

As the former capital of the United States in 1784, this city has plenty of historic places and significance. The attractions include the New Jersey State Museum and just up the Delaware River to the north is the Washington Crossing. Historically, George Washington crossed the river during the Revolutionary War.

Other attractions include the city’s Thunder Ballpark, Cadwalader Park, Hetzel Field, Columbus Park, Lalor St Park, South Riverwalk Park, Cooper’s Riverview, Old Barracks Museum, and the Ellarslie Museum.

Public Service Enterprise Group, or PSE&G, a local electric company in Trenton, started the process of improving the power transmission and storage capabilities in their service area of 17 municipalities.

They hired Burns & McDonnell, an engineering firm, to begin the work of replacing aging infrastructure at multiple locations. In turn, Burns & McDonnell contacted Romtec Utilities for help on the design of a stormwater pump station to meet all its requirements.

Romtec Utilities provided a system designed to meet the specific stormwater management standards of this site and the specified pumping requirements.

The supply of the package stormwater system was purchased directly by DIS-TRAN, the contractor, who installed it with a Romtec Utilities construction advisor onsite. Once other site work was completed and the system was ready for start-up, Romtec Utilities sent a field technician to commission the system and to provide testing and training services for the owners at PSE&G.

The pump station handles medium flows of stormwater with Ebara 2 hp pumps installed in a duplex configuration.

It discharges into an onsite pretreatment system installed adjacent to the pump station.

The small size of this pump station and limited space onsite required the discharge valves to be installed inside of the wet well. Nolta mechanical floats provide reliable liquid-level detection for the system.

Romtec Utilities supplied the electrical controls for this package pump system with a UL-listed alternator relay suitable for this simple pumping application. The control panel was mounted and installed inside a NEMA 4 painted steel enclosure for protection against water, ice, dust, and other harmful conditions in this outdoor application.

The industrial stormwater pump system features a 5’ diameter wet well, 3″ discharge piping, Ebara 100DLFU pumps, and 3″ valve assembly. The stormwater system can pump up to 225 gallons per minute.

Romtec Utilities is proud to design, manufacture, and supply this industrial stormwater pump station for this industrial power switch station for PSE&G. This power switch station is a critical piece of infrastructure that provides power to several cities in the area and this stormwater pump station will help keep it operating despite any storms.