Prison Facility Eliminates Frequent Submersible Pump Clogs With New Above-Grade Approach

Prison sewage often contains extra trash, towels, and rags that enter the sewerage network and cause pump clogging problems. When a correctional facility underwent a capacity expansion, changes to its problematic submersible sewage pumping station coincided, resulting in a new operator-safe approach to combatting the ills of prison sewage pump clogs.

According to the operations company staff, the original submersible pump station reached a point when the pumps were clogging as often as every two days. It became a major time-consuming nuisance and a safety issue because the submersible pumps reside in a designated confined space wet well.

These developments caused the operations firm to assess new solutions for the aging pump station. After a careful evaluation of multiple options, the operations firm chose to replace the submersible pumps with a unique turkey solution: an above-ground packaged pumping station known commercially as the EVERLAST™ Wet Well Mounted Pump Station by Smith & Loveless.