Automated Bar Screen Solves Problems At Arizona Lift Station

Screening equipment designed for narrow, deep vaults increases efficiency at an Arizona lift station and treatment plant.
Automated Bar Screen Solves Problems At Arizona Lift Station
Jesse Black (left), senior operator for Epcor Water, meets with staff and Aqualitec engineers at the completed Screentec installation.

An antiquated 2-inch manual bar screen allowed some objects almost as large as a bed sheet to enter the Bell Road Lift Station in Sun City West, Arizona. Materials routinely clogged the four 250 hp horizontal slurry pumps.

At the headworks 5 miles away, the flow split over...

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