Beaverton, Oregon borders the west of Portland in Washington County. It is one of the main cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. With a population of 97,494 at the 2020 census, it is the seventh largest city in the state. The population was up from 89,803 in 2010, so the city has been growing at a healthy pace.

It is the economic center for Washington County and the Tualatin Valley. Tigard, Aloha, and Tualatin are neighboring cities. Washington Square is a major mall in Beaverton that brings in many retailers and customers.

U.S. Highway 26 and Oregon Route 217 traverse through Beaverton connecting it with Interstate 5 and the west side of Portland.

There are a variety of parks in Beaverton including Redtail Golf Center, Greenway Park, Hyland Forest Park, Conestoga Recreation and Aquatic Center, Sky Zone Trampoline Park, Portland Golf Club, the Nike Company Store, Mountain View Champions Park, Lowami Hart Woods, Howard M. Terpenning Recreation Complex, Tualatin Hills Nature Park, Beaverton Creek Wetlands Natural Area, Hart Meadows Park, and Sexton Mountain Meadows Park.

This stormwater pump station will serve a new mixed-use commercial development in Beaverton, Oregon. The development will consist of a hotel, gas station, convenience store, and large retail space.

The commercial development pump station system will be pumping from a detention pond to Fanno Creek and will operate to empty the detention pond. There will be two separate pipes, or culverts, equalized with the creek. The upper culvert will be an overflow back into the creek, and the commercial development stormwater pump station will operate below the overflow culvert elevation.

At this point, the pump station is expected to discharge into the overflow culvert, which will then gravity feed into the creek. All structures and equipment will be above the 100-year flood high water mark, so redundancy will not be required. The system will remain privately owned by the developer and owner, The Oregon Worsted Company, who contracted directly with Romtec Utilities.

Dowl was the civil engineer for this project. Dowl supports planning, surveying, engineering (transportation, civil, structural, water resources, and geotechnical), environmental, and other services with various offices.

Romtec Utilities was contacted by the Oregon Worsted Company, the developer of the project. Preliminary hydraulic reports from Wood and Cascade Water Resources outlined the need for a stormwater pump station for this project.

Romtec Utilities worked with Dowl to create the design criteria for the commercial development stormwater pump station. We were able to meet the “not to exceed” budget by keeping the system as simple as possible.

This commercial development stormwater pump station system features two horsepower Keen pumps in a duplex configuration, 5’ diameter wet well, control panel, aluminum hatch, discharge piping 4” ductile iron, 4 float sensors for primary level sensing, and stainless steel guide rails.

The duty point is 200 gallons per minute at 17.8 Total Dynamic Head. The peak inflow is 400 gallons per minute.

We were proud to provide the design, manufacturing, and supply of this stormwater pump station for this commercial development in Beaverton, Oregon for Oregon Worsted Company, in partnership with Dowl.

We design and supply stormwater pump stations to various developments across the country to help deal with various stormwater pumping environments. We work with owners, developers, civil engineers, architects, general contractors, and installing contractors to design a system that will meet the pumping requirements of the project.

We even send an installation coordinator to the site at installation to provide assistance, help with commissioning the system, and providing on-site instruction on operating the system.

We provide full-service customer support throughout the design and supply of the system to ensure the project is a success. Contact us today to get started on your stormwater pump station.