Pacific Gas and Electric Company

PG&E Power Plant|Colusa, CA|300 GPM - 23' TDH

jweddell100gpm - 300gpm, Equipment Washdown, HRSG Blowdown, HRSG Pumping, Industrial, Industrial Process Water featured, Industrial Water, Pacific, Power Generation, Stormwater, Wastewater

These three package lift stations were designed to meet medium flows of industrial process water with added low flows of industrial stormwater and wastewater. Submersible centrifugal pumps in a duplex configuration were specified to meet the peak flows and water chemistry identified for each pump station. UL listed control panels with floats for liquid level-sensing and basic alarms comprise the system controls for the lift stations. These packaged lift stations were integrated into stormwater, processing, and wastewater plans for the new construction of the Colusa Generating Station.

Sammamish Plateau Water

Pacific Properties | Sammamish, WA | 85 GPM - 75' TDH

jweddell50gpm - 100gpm, Meter Vaults, Municipal Collection, Now & Future Expansions, Pacific, Residential Development, Sewer System Expansion, Urban Growth, Wastewater

This medium flow sewage lift station was designed for a new development to meet the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District lift station design standards. These standards specify a PLC controller with touchscreen HMI, SCADA options, a precast concrete valve vault, wet well, meter vault, and duplex submersible pumps. In addition to these design standards, this lift station needed to tie-in to an existing force main owned by the District. Romtec Utilities provided the tie-in force main designs and calculations as well as VFDs (variable frequency drives) to match the changing flow and pressure conditions of the existing force main.

Husky Stadium

University of Washington|Seattle, WA|346 GPM - 40' TDH

jweddell300gpm - 500gpm, Grinder Vault, Municipal Collection, Pacific, Schools, Sewer System Expansion, Slurry/Gritty Water, Valve Vaults, Wastewater, Wastewater Featured

The renovation of the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium required a new lift station to handle medium flows of wastewater. Robust, 10hp Vaughan Chopper pumps were used in a duplex configuration to macerate solids and to pump under unpredictable conditions. The lift station, valve vault, and the access hatches were designed as traffic rated to accommodate loading/unloading next to the main grandstand. The UL listed control panel starts, stops, and alternates each pump cycle at levels measured by Noltaniva float sensors.

Tesoro Oil and Water Separator Pump

Tesoro Corporation|Port Angeles, WA|400 GPM - 30' TDH

jweddell300gpm - 500gpm, Industrial, Industrial Water, Oil & Gas, Oil/Water Separators, Pacific, Stormwater, Stormwater Runoff

A remote Tesoro Corporation industrial site needed this stormwater pump station to handle water discharged from an oil/water separator which processes on-site runoff. Submersible centrifugal pumps were used in a duplex configuration in this shallow wet well. The 7.5 hp Ebara explosion-proof pumps were sized to meet low flow, medium head conditions for stormwater. Check valves and plug valves were integrated into the discharge piping in the well for a simple and cost-effective design. The precast concrete wet well and the access hatch are both pedestrian rated.

Assembling of the Concrete Wet Well in a Large Hole

Commercial Development | Newark, DE | 60 GPM - 16' TDH

jweddell50gpm - 100gpm, Apartment Complexes, Eastern, Wastewater

A commercial development in Delaware required this wastewater lift station to handle low flows of sewage from a new fast food restaurant and retail stores. Tsurumi cutter pumps in a duplex configuration macerate solids any in the wastewater to pass through the force main diameter. This lift station pumps a short distance with low head to a nearby gravity collection system that flows to treatment. A UL listed control panel was supplied for complete electrical controls with Nolta Niva floats for in-well liquid level-sensing.