For this sanitary pumping system, Romtec Utilities provided a wastewater pump station for the new Warrenton Middle School that was constructed to help with capacity and safety needs. The sanitary pumping system is a larger system that will meet the needs of the middle school but also an elementary school and high school expansion that is part of the future plans at the Warrenton School District.

We worked with KPFF, Skanska, and Big River Excavating to bring this sanitary pumping system to life for the new Warrenton Middle School. Due to topography, a wastewater pump station was needed at the school.

Warrenton is a town on the very northwestern edge of Oregon where the Pacific Ocean and the mouth of the Columbia River collide. Located in Clatsop County, the city had a population of 6,277 at the 2020 census. Warrenton is about 12 miles north from the popular Seaside, an oceanside city.

Warrenton is close to the historic Fort Stevens State Park which is a 3,763-acre park with hiking, beaches, a fortress, and a shipwreck from 1906. The town is home to a fishing and logging community.

The Warrenton School District wanted to construct a new middle school as part of various project phases that will include a new high school and elementary school.

The future phases aren’t anticipated to happen right away, but Romtec Utilities attempted to accommodate the future phases to minimize upgrades in the future.

The old age and crowding of the former school led the district to pursue a new school for growth, sustainability, and tsunami safety concerns.

The new Warrenton Middle School is 45,000-square-foot with a new gym, full service kitchen, classrooms, and admin areas.

Due to topographic reasons, the new school will include a sanitary pumping system that will discharge to the public system. Romtec Utilities designed the larger system to handle the flows and the tough pumping environment that is a school.

The system features a precast 5′ ID x 17.833′ deep wet well, precast 660 Valve Vault, duplex 5hp Ebara submersible pumps, pressure transducer as primary level sensing, Nolta MS1 Floats for secondary level sensing, and a Logic controller in a NEMA 4X stainless steel enclosure.

The sanitary pump system can pump up to 91 gallons per minute with a 41.5 total dynamic head.

KPFF Portland was the project driver for Romtec Utilities and the civil engineer for this project. KPFF is one of the region’s largest civil and structural engineering firms. Romtec Utilities has worked with KPFF before on several projects like Port of Vancouver, UP Franz, and Tillamook Bay CC.

Skanska USA was the general contractor for this major project. Skanska is one of the largest construction and development companies in the world building large projects across the U.S.

Big River Excavating was the underground contractor who installed the pumping system at the middle school. Big River is based out of Astoria and has worked with Romtec Utilities in the past on the Astoria Subdivision and the Pacific Rim Apartments projects. Big River provides general contractor and excavation management.

Whether you are building a new school or upgrading it, a new wastewater system may be needed and at Romtec Utilities, we can design, manufacture, and supply your system to fit your specific project needs.

Things schools or school districts should consider when building a new school:
-Based on the site, layout, and surroundings a sewer pump system may be necessary
-At Romtec Utilties we can work with the school, the general contractor, engineers to design a system that will meet the current and future needs of the school
-Designing the system with controls and alarms that provide a high level of monitoring of the system to ensure operations (we can help pick controls that fit your needs)
-We specialize in designing the sewer pump station to meet a tough pumping environment where various objects make their way into the system
-Picking a location at the site where the wet well and system will be installed in the ground

At Romtec Utilities we can work alongside you to design, manufacture, and supply the complete sanitary pump system to meet your schools’ pumping needs.

We send an onsite installation tech who helps to ensure the system is installed correctly, along with commissioning the system. They train maintenance personnel on the operations, controls, and alarms of the system.

We provide a very robust warranty to ensure your sanitary lift station is covered when it comes to any warranty issues. We are the single source provider of the system, so we handle the entire process directly ourselves. This makes the process easy for you.

Our team manufactures various parts of our systems prior to shipping to ensure a high level of quality control. For example, the precast 660 valve vault is manufactured at our plant, so when it’s shipped, it’s already set up with all valves and equipment installed so it can easily be dropped into place. This saves a large amount of time, money, and equipment needed to install the system.

At Romtec Utilities we can work with you to design a system that meets your pumping needs and fits all the requirements associated with the pump station. We can design a system that meets all your control preferences as well.

Contact us today to get started on your sanitary lift station.

The wastewater pumping system features:
– Precast 5′ ID x 17.833′ deep wet well
– Precast 660 Valve Vault
– Duplex 5hp Ebara Submersible Pumps
– Primary Level Sensing: FMX21 Pressure Transducer
– Secondary Level Sensing: NOLTA MS1 Floats (2)
– Primary Controller: Logic Controller configured for Duplex
– NEMA 4X Stainless Steel Enclosure