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Romtec Utilities can help government purchasers save money on complete pumping systems with our government contracts. Government contracts are negotiated product listings with built in discounts that represent a company’s most favorable pricing on the products listing. The negotiated price discounts ensure that government purchasers have access to products at or better than fair market value. Operating this way allows approved government agencies at the city, state, and federal level to purchase products immediately and directly without a required bid process. The advantage is getting a preferred product from a reputable manufacturer for less money in less time.

Romtec Utilities can design, supply and construct for any lift station or pump station project. These structures can serve a variety of purposes from basic weather protection to housing advanced system controls. No matter what your project goals are, Romtec Utilities can get you the perfect shelter or control building for your pumping system.

Last week, the US Census Bureau released a report about new home sales across the country. It contained some great data for economic forecasts across several industries. One of these industries is the world of wastewater pumping systems. As new residential developments are constructed, the new homes must have either a connection (typically via a pumping system) to municipal sewers or private septic systems. Because of Urban sprawl, septic systems are used less and less in favor of increasing sewer infrastructure. Romtec Utilities works with developers every day to provide these types of lift stations quickly, reliably and affordably.

Peaking factor is a term that describes a fictitious scenario where the inflow to a lift station is calculated as several times higher than the maximum possible sewage flow. In more simple terms, if each house that flowed to a lift station turned on every shower, ran every faucet, and flushed every toilet, that number would be multiplied by a factor, typically by three, to account for substantially more than the maximum possible sewage flow. This number is used as a best practice in the engineering of sewer and wastewater lift stations, and understanding the specific peaking factor needs for your site is a crucial design consideration for your lift station.

Romtec Utilities recently started-up a new wastewater lift station that was designed, manufactured, and supplied to meet the specific standards of the City of Snoqualmie. This project was for a 34 lot addition to the Snoqualmie II residential development to handle sanitary sewer from the homes and pump it to gravity lines. Romtec Utilities helped the developer, PulteGroup, get its lift station manufactured and delivered so that its development could move forward.