PUMPS & VALVES RESOURCES

• Predicting Pump Ragging Before The Overflow: What Lift-Station Sensing Gets Right

  Rags and wipes don’t seize a pump overnight they load it gradually, and the sensors already in the station can see it coming days ahead. The stations that avoid overflows aren’t the ones with the most instruments; they’re the ones that read the right signals together.

• Virginia Beach Shuts The Door On Tidal Flooding

  When heavy rain meets high tide, tidal creeks have no room left to drain. Engineered storage, built from sealed gates and advance pumping, tests a different answer to coastal flooding.

• Rethinking Solids Handling In Wastewater Pumps: Oblique Cone Impeller Geometry

  Fibrous, flushable-laden wastewater has outpaced conventional impeller design. Eliminating exposed leading edges and separating solids alignment from energy transfer offers a clog-resistant path that avoids maceration and preserves efficiency.

• Energy Optimization Plan For Water Networks

  Sustained energy savings in drinking water distribution and sanitation depend on a continuous, structured optimization process rather than isolated equipment fixes. Knowing where losses sit shapes how to prioritize them.

• North America's Industrial Strainer Challenge: Unpredictable Solids Loading

  Managing changing solids loading, unpredictable debris, and increasingly variable water sources can make the selection between conventional basket strainers and automatic scraper strainers increasingly significant.
• 15 Years Of Proven Reliability: How A South Florida Utility Standardized On Beck Actuators

  Discover how a major water utility transformed its operations by standardizing its flow control infrastructure, virtually eliminating emergency maintenance costs and shrinking spare parts inventory over fifteen years of continuous, demanding field service.

• 73 Million Starts, Zero Maintenance: City Of Frederick Demonstrates Long-Term Reliability Of Beck Actuators

  Continuous valve modulation often causes premature motor burnout in critical water infrastructure. Adopting a 100% duty cycle motor design eliminates repetitive maintenance, ensuring precise process control and long-term system reliability.

• MDC Preserves Service While Upgrading Infrastructure

  Discover how a major utility leveraged advanced in-line isolation technology to abandon an aging water main and prepare for new pipeline infrastructure without disrupting service to nearby businesses or residents at a busy town intersection.

• Safeguarding Neighborhood Service During An Emergency With Valve Insertion

  Discover how a municipal utility resolved an urgent infrastructure repair on an active 8-inch water main in just two hours, keeping water flowing to hundreds of nearby residents by avoiding a wide-reaching neighborhood shutdown.

• Reservoir Service Preserved During Emergency Leak Repair

  Discover how utility operators resolved a critical emergency main leak in just one day, using under-pressure valve insertion to isolate the break without draining the regional reservoir or interrupting water service to the community.