Romtec Utilities designed and suppled this community stormwater pump station project for Crystal Creek Developers in Alvin, Texas. Alvin, Texas is a city in the southern part of the state south of Houston near the Gulf of Mexico.

The city is in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area and in Brazoria County with a population of 27,098. The metropolitan area has a population of 7,122,240 in 2020 making it the fifth most populous metro area in the U.S., encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast.

It is about 30 miles south of Houston while Galveston which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico is 30 miles to the southwest.

Texas Route 6 and Route 35 both run through the area.

The city of Alvin is known as being the hometown of Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan. The Nolan Ryan Museum sits within the Nolan Ryan Foundation and Exhibit Center that is located at Alvin Community College.

Being near the Gulf of Mexico can mean that big storms come hit the area which is why Crystal Creek Developers wanted a stormwater pump station for their community mixed-use development in Alvin, Texas.

Crystal Creek Developers, LLC contacted Romtec Utilities directly for the design and supply of this community stormwater pump station project. Crystall Creek Developers is a Planning, Engineering, & Construction located in Friendswood.

We worked with the Crystal Creek Developers’ site engineer, EDG Texas, to complete this design. Romtec Utilities included several cost-reducing design features for this system to keep the developer within its budget and to improve the lead time of the system.

EDG is a full-service consulting firm providing cost-effective engineering, management, and project service solutions.

Romtec Utilities manufactured, fabricated, and supplied the pump station directly to Crystal Creek Developers for installation at its 23-acre mixed-use development. The site has plans to be a city center with an apartment complex, retail, and office spaces, along with a hotel and convention center.

We provided an onsite construction adviser to assist Crystal Creek Developers during the installation. A start-up technician was sent after construction was completed to commission the system and provide testing and training for the owners.

A new mixed-use community development needed a stormwater pump station to handle medium flows of stormwater from the community.

This design features a flooded inlet line, allowing the precast concrete wet well to be installed at shallower depth. This structure includes two 5 horsepower EBARA pumps in a duplex configuration to meet the pumping rates.

A series of floats are used to measure the in-well levels, and a UL-listed alternating control panel operates to start and stop pumps on level. This system was designed to fully discharge into a detention pond. The panel is housed in a NEMA 4X fiberglass enclosure designed for outdoor and all-weather installations.

Romtec Utilities was pleased to provide this stormwater pump station for this mixed-use development in Alvin, Texas that can pump up to 500 gallons per minute into the detention pond.

At Romtec Utilities we design, manufacture, and supply stormwater pump stations for a variety of developments all over the U.S.

Contact us today, if you’d like to get started on a stormwater pumping system.