CASE STUDIES

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

  There is never a good time for a municipality to encounter problems with its water supply. But during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak – when handwashing and sanitation are essential to maintaining public health – a reduction in water supply to residents quickly becomes critical.

• Emergency Bypass Solution Enables Critical Repairs For Aging Sewer Line In L.A.

  Deteriorating, leaking sewer lines are common in Los Angeles where one-fifth of the city’s water pipes were installed before 1931. But when a section of the North Outfall Sewer (NOS) near the intersection of Avenue 19 and Humboldt Street in downtown LA threatened to collapse, swift action was needed. Read the full case study to learn how a submersible bypass system addressed complex project challenges.

• 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

  The Southern Iowa Rural Water Association (SIRWA) provides quality drinking water to the residents and communities of southwest Iowa. Included in its 4,000 miles of pipeline is a 16-mile, 12-inch line that runs from the city of Creston to Corning.

• Victor Valley Turns To Xylem To Recover From Mojave Desert Environmental Catastrophe

  During any given year, average rainfall in the Victor Valley of Southern California is approximately five inches. But 2010 wasn’t the average year.

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

  Greenwich, Connecticut, located in the tristate area immediately surrounding New York City, is a scenic New England town that is home to approximately 60,000 people.

• Xylem Provides Pumping & Control Equipment To Reduce Force Main Pressure

  HRSD, the regional wastewater treatment utility that serves 18 cities and counties in southeast Virginia, had been experiencing high-pressures in their Williamsburg area force main network during wet weather events. These high pressure events caused operational trouble and, on occasion, resulted in SSOs in the collection system.

• Historic Rains In Memphis Lead To Monumental Emergency Bypass

  Record rainfalls in Memphis, TN eroded the soil supporting a 96-inch sanitary sewer main, causing the line to fail. With nearly 40 million gallons per day (MGD) of raw sewage escaping into Cypress Creek, less than a mile from McKellar Lake and the Mississippi River, 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). C.O. Falter Construction was named the bypass contractor for the project and 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.