Prior to the installation of the Duperon Self-Cleaning Trashrack at their intakes, the City of Dallas Hampton Road Pump Station operated without any protection in front of their stormwater grating.

“We just had a grate in front with no mechanical cleaning,” remembers Dhruv Pandya, District Manager for the City of Dallas Department of Flood Control. “The pumps were suffering. They were continually getting clogged, and they didn’t have enough water coming in to function properly.”

To clear the grates, operators used simple hand rakes — no small feat, considering that the grate was more than 100 feet long. “As big as it was, it just did not work,” Pandya says. “We started looking and found Duperon. It seemed like the Self-Cleaning Trashrack would be a good fit for us.” 

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