Wastewater Collection Systems Videos

1. Passing vs Chopping: Understanding The Tradeoffs In Wastewater Collection And Transport 9/9/2026

   This presentation explores the tradeoffs between passing solids and macerating them, highlighting where each approach provides advantages and how emerging pump, cutter, and impeller technologies are reshaping solids handling strategies.

2. How To Install Grundfos Sense Level 8/31/2026

   Watch this video for a tutorial on how to properly install the Grundfos Sense Level, a compact radar level sensor made for monitoring water and wastewater in harsh, remote environments. 

3. Introducing Dynamic Sewer Control 8/31/2026

   Traditional static sewer networks operate with rigid outflow limits that fail during heavy rainfall, leading to severe overflows, environmental damage, and structural flooding. Grundfos addresses this by introducing a dynamic sewer control system that uses real-time level and flow monitoring to intelligently coordinate pumps, valves, storage tanks, and pumping stations across the entire network.

4. Little Rock, AR: AquaStorm Video Success Story 8/1/2023

   In this video, discover how cloth media filters were able to solve wet weather challenges in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. 

5. Smart Sewers 2.0 -- How The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati Is Delivering The Next Generation Of Collection Systems Management 7/7/2022

   Hear how the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Ohio (MSDGC) has raised the bar on operating their collection systems by maximizing existing assets and system data using real-time optimization technology.

6. Flights: Essential To Effective Clarification 5/23/2022

   Outside of the collector chain, flight scrapers are typically the least inspected, yet critical, member of any chain and flight system. In this episode of Brentwood’s Polychem Solutions Maintenance Series, we walk you through some concerns to be mindful of and provide basic inspection measures to keep your clarifier running smoothly.

7. Collector Chain: The Heart Of The System 5/23/2022

   Chain: the heart of any collector system. In this episode of Brentwood’s Polychem Solutions Maintenance Series, we review some basic chain inspection techniques and advise you on how to inspect your chain to ensure it's not near its breaking point.

8. Polychem Chain And Flight Collector System 5/23/2022

   Learn how all the components in a standard Polychem system are assembled and installed.

9. Aire-O2's Cold Weather Legacy In Action 11/24/2021

   Known equally for arctic winter conditions and being a land of 10,000 lakes – it was perhaps inevitable that a brand like Aire-O2 would be conceived in Chaska, Minnesota –  a region the locals refer to colloquially as “the North”, where hockey, ice-fishing, and a strong relationship to our shared natural resources all coincide with a company whose long-standing motto was “Life depends on clean water.” From the company’s inception more than forty years ago, it has provided wastewater treatment solutions in the most challenging environments. Offering environmentally sound systems and solutions that keep operator safety, year-round effectiveness, and long-term reliability and durability foremost in mind.

10. The DIMMINUTOR® Makes A Difference At Ross Valley Sanitary District 10/21/2021

    Ross Valley Sanitary District in San Rafael, California services approximately 47,000 mostly residential customers over a 27 square mile service area. They have 5 major pump stations, which is where Ross Valley found themselves having the most trouble. The existing channel grinders were simply not reliable. The constant downtime was causing even more than extra work; it was costing the district a lot of money. They knew this was not a sustainable system to keep their plant and stations running.