“I used to dread coming here,” says Mitch Puckett, director of the water and sewer department in Madisonville, Texas.
He’s talking about Lift Station No. 8, and it’s no wonder he once felt as he did. Despite the installation of two pumps that were sold as able to cope with typical lift station debris, less than 12 months after they were installed, the chore of unblocking rags from those pumps became all too frequent.Then, there was the grease: “A layer of grease more than 7 feet thick,” Puckett says. Even with all the grease traps required by code at food establishments, it
