CASE STUDIES

• Pump Stations That Will Not Fail

  Read how an Arkansas utility takes redundancy a step further with a permanent backup system to prevent sanitary sewer overflows. 

• Emergency Bypass Solution Enables Critical Repairs For Aging Sewer Line In Los Angeles

  Download our latest case study and read about how the teams engineered a solution using Flygt submersible pumps and Godwin equipment that operated continuously for nine months while crews made the repairs in a high-traffic area near critical infrastructure.

• Quick Response Restores Critical Water Supply To North Carolina Community During COVID-19 Outbreak

  During the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak — when handwashing and sanitation were essential to maintaining public health — a reduction in water supply to residents quickly became critical.

• Xylem Engages In Award-Winning Rehab And Bypass Project With North Carolina Utility

  The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) in North Carolina engaged in a capital improvement project to help address their aging infrastructure.

• Flood Event Prompts Portable Back-Up Pump Solution For Potable Water Network

  When a storm event shut down both Southern Iowa Rural Water Association pump stations, it caused authorities to scramble to move water to their customers. 

• Victor Valley Recovers From Mojave Desert Environmental Catastrophe

  Pushed beyond the limits of its banks, the Mojave River gushed at more than 36-cubic-feet-per-second in the Upper Mojave Narrows. It was an environmental catastrophe and needed attention immediately.

• Bypass Enables Critical Upgrades For Aging Sewer Lines In Greenwich, Connecticut

  Greenwich, Connecticut is a scenic New England town that is home to approximately 60,000 people. Its ongoing initiatives include repairs and upgrades to the town’s wastewater treatment plant and 28 pumping stations.

• Providing Pumping & Control Equipment To Reduce Force Main Pressure

  HRSD, the regional wastewater treatment utility in southeast Virginia, had been experiencing high pressures in their Williamsburg area force main network during wet weather events.

• Historic Rains In Memphis Lead To Monumental Emergency Bypass

  Record rainfalls in Memphis, TN eroded the soil supporting a sanitary sewer main, causing the line to fail. An emergency bypass was needed fast to facilitate the repair work on the 96” sewer main.

• Xylem Designs Permanent Backup Pump Solution To Prevent Another Overflow In Jonesborough

  In spring 2016, a significant rain event sent the Jonesborough Wastewater Department in Tennessee back to the drawing board.

• Moving Fast To Perform ‘Triple Bypass’ Operation For Wastewater Treatment Plant

  The first sign of trouble in “America’s Hometown” came on December 19, 2015. Plymouth, Massachusetts is the celebrated site where the Pilgrims landed in 1620, but on this day the prominent municipality was facing a major problem: the 4.5mile force main from the Water Street Pump Station to the Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) had given way.

• Xylem Pairs Godwin And Flygt Pumps To Assist With Emergency Tunnel Project

  The city of Atlanta faced a critical problem in 2013 when the city’s Nancy Creek Tunnel failed due to years of sediment buildup.

• Bypass System At Onondaga County Pump Station Enables Completion Of Vital Upgrades

  When the West Side sewage pump station in Onondaga County, New York, prepared to undergo its first major upgrade in over 30 years, the project required a bypass system to move a peak flow of 30 million gallons per day (MGD). The bypass contractor for the project worked with Xylem to design and install a temporary system to convey the full amount of flow.

• Xylem’s Godwin Dri-Prime NC350 Pump Provides Non-Clog Sewer Bypass Solution

  Godwin’s Dri-Prime 16-in. pump ran a sewer bypass system continuously for a month without issues while the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, replaced a major outfall line feeding its wastewater treatment plant.

• Treatment Plants In Albany County Look To Godwin Pumps For Sewer Bypass System

  New York’s Albany County was in the process of updating its wastewater treatment plants when it turned to BCI Construction for a temporary bypass system to transfer 88 million gallons per day during the project.

• Canada’s Largest Bypass Project Lands At Canada’s Largest Airport

  Canada’s Region of Peel is a permanent home to more than 1 million people and a temporary stopover for another 20 million air travelers who pass through Toronto Pearson Airport each year.

• Emergency Bypass For Sewer Facility Circumvents Natural And Manmade Obstacles

  When operators at the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority (RWSA) in Charlottesville, Virginia discovered a compromise in the 54-inch secondary effluent water line at their Moores Creek Advanced Water Resource Recovery Facility, they took immediate action to address the problem.

• Xylem Bypass System Helps Facilitate Pump Station Rehab In Covington, Kentucky

  Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky (SD1) needed to perform wet well concrete rehabilitation to two pump stations in Covington, Kentucky, located just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.