Unlike most wastewater lift stations whose owners try to hide or disguise them, the Calgary Forest Lawn Lift Station in southern Alberta...
Entries Tagged Lift Station/Wet Well
Online Exclusives
Pump Station Improves Performance with Conditioning Pump
The Otay River Pump Station in San Diego, California, which pumps 7 to 9 mgd of raw sewage to the South Bay...
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Diving Into a Viral Campaign Against Flushing Wipes
A series of strikingly illustrative photographs from the removal of a massive pump blockage recently brought a spike of public attention to...
Videos
In the Field: Vertical Wet Well Lift Station Pump
Watch the raw mixing power of Vaughan Company's V3V recirculating chopper pump in action at a wastewater lift station.
For...
Editorial
A Small Utility District Uses a Special Chopper Pump to Bust Clogs From Sludge and FOG
Amid the pastoral landscape of the Blue Lake Estates Community, a group of cautiously optimistic operators, officials, and suppliers gathered around the...
Editorial
Direct Inline Pumping of Influent Boosts Efficiency and Eliminates a Confined-Space Hazard
The team at the village of Sherman’s clean-water plant in New York faced frequent and hazardous confined-space entries to de-rag pumps in...
Editorial
Jim Baird Takes Pride in Helping Other Operators Become More Effective and Valuable
Jim Baird has a passion for operator education.
As engineering and operations manager for the Roseburg (Oregon) Urban Sanitary Authority, he manages the...
Online Exclusives
Utility Tackles Chronic Lift Station Issues With Public Education
When Jason Arnold confronted his utility’s soaring frequency of lift station repairs, he didn’t just want to head off problems. It was...
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News Briefs: Florida Woman Caught on Video Tampering with Wastewater Plants
A 33-year-old woman from Panama City, Florida, was caught on video and later arrested for allegedly tampering with a number of municipal...
Process Control Systems - Gorman-Rupp Integrinex
The Integrinex line of lift station controls from Gorman-Rupp is designed to ensure system performance through precise matching of controls to pumps...
Editorial
Headworks and Biosolids Management
Wet well system curbs odor issuesProblem: In mid-2013, the Pacific Northwest Regional Wastewater Authority was receiving odor complaints from residents around a...
Vertical/Lift Station Pumps - Crane Pumps & Systems Barnes Fiberglass Lift Station
Preassembled Barnes Fiberglass Lift Stations from Crane Pumps & Systems are available in pipe rail simplex/duplex and hard piped simplex systems, and...
Editorial
Biosolids Management and Headworks
Mixing system leads to significant energy savingsProblem: The Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Metropolitan Sewerage District needed to reduce the mixing energy in the anaerobic...
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News Briefs: Mystery Flusher Forces City to Replace Lift Station
The City of Shawano, Wisconsin, has decided to spend $11,000 on a new lift station, thanks to a mystery flusher who has...

















