Collection Systems Resources
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Xylem Designs Permanent Backup Pump Solution To Prevent Another Overflow In Jonesborough
1/30/2020
In spring 2016, a significant rain event sent the Jonesborough Wastewater Department in Tennessee back to the drawing board.
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Moving Fast To Perform ‘Triple Bypass’ Operation For Wastewater Treatment Plant
1/30/2020
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.
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Xylem Pairs Godwin And Flygt Pumps To Assist With Emergency Tunnel Project
1/30/2020
The city of Atlanta faced a critical problem in 2013 when the city’s Nancy Creek Tunnel failed due to years of sediment buildup.
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Bypass System At Onondaga County Pump Station Enables Completion Of Vital Upgrades
1/30/2020
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.
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Xylem’s Godwin Dri-Prime NC350 Pump Provides Non-Clog Sewer Bypass Solution
1/30/2020
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.
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Treatment Plants In Albany County Look To Godwin Pumps For Sewer Bypass System
1/30/2020
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.
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Canada’s Largest Bypass Project Lands At Canada’s Largest Airport
1/30/2020
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.
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Emergency Bypass For Sewer Facility Circumvents Natural And Manmade Obstacles
1/30/2020
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.
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Xylem Bypass System Helps Facilitate Pump Station Rehab In Covington, Kentucky
1/30/2020
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.
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Quantitative Analysis Of Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Environmental Impact
1/21/2020
Environmental protection is at the heart of wastewater treatment, but the treatment system itself has a footprint. Here, a comparative analysis of the resource consumption of conventional and recycled thermoplastic systems is provided.