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Gorman-Rupp Provides Savings, Efficiency To Pennsylvania Township
February 9, 2010
•Case Study: Gorman-Rupp Provides Savings, Efficiency To Pennsylvania Township
By The Gorman-Rupp Company
Hampden Township, located in idyllic southeastern Pennsylvania near Mechanicsburg, is home to more than 25,000 residents. The township is a desirable location for many because of good schools and strong community services. To maintain the township's strong value, municipal leaders pay particular attention to structural maintenance issues while keeping a watchful eye on fiscal responsibility.
The township's wastewater treatment facility is a modern plant fed by suburban transfer stations throughout the area. Pump station No. 8 is a wet well/dry well lift station outfitted with three dry pit submersible pumps. The site is also one of the busiest stations, pumping upwards of 2,500 gallons of sewage per minute. By February 2005, the constant wear and tear on the station's continually working pumps necessitated replacement.
"Due to the frequency and high cost of constantly repairing the dry pit submersible pumps, we decided to replace them with more dependable and efficient Gorman-Rupp T-series pumps," said Tom Fealtman, Township Collection System Foreman. He had good reason; the old pumps were costing the township $15,000 every four-to-five years for repairs and were using excessive amounts of electricity to complete tasks.
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