Romtec Utilities designs, supplies, and fully integrates pump stations, control panels, and other systems into site-built control buildings. A recent lift station project for the Gossamer Grove residential development in Shafter California needed a control building to house electrical controls for a new wastewater lift station. This project included many requirements from several agencies, and Romtec Utilities supplied the complete lift station and control building integrated into a packaged system. The City of Shafter has

Romtec Utilities designs, manufactures, and supplies wastewater lift stations for all types of projects and water pumping scenarios. Designing a functional wastewater lift station can sometimes include unique design challenges. One fairly common example of a design challenge is integrating mixing and/or water agitation to the pumping system. Adding a mixer or agitator can be useful under the right conditions, and it is important to understand what conditions these devices handle, benefits they can provide

Romtec Utilities designs pump station retrofit packages for many different applications, from wastewater to booster pump stations. One frequent area of interest for pump station retrofit projects is replacing an aging hatch on the wet well and/or vault structures. There are many reasons to replace a hatch, but typically, the best solution is replacing the entire top slab for concrete wet wells or vault structures with the hatch. This type of retrofit process can tremendously

Romtec Utilities primarily uses two materials for constructing wet wells and sumps: precast concrete and fiberglass. Often, these two materials are preferable to cast-in-place concrete because of the uniform quality, the speed of production, and the cost savings from mass production. These two materials also provide benefits over the other, but choosing one material will typically reflect specific design standards or the requirements of the site. Precast concrete is a very strong and durable material,

Romtec Utilities recently completed a project with the East Bay Municipal Utility District to reclaim water from the San Pablo Water Treatment Plant. This pump station construction is a part of a larger project to bring the water treatment plant back into operation after being decommissioned for several years. The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) plans to use the treatment plant to treat water from the nearby San Pablo Reservoir in response to California’s