Entries by Mark Taylor

“See you at the Station”

The Pros and Cons of the packaged  lift station proposal vs. the common request for bids and the contractor built sewer lift station. Should you as the Engineer put the Pump Station Project out as the standard request for bids solicitation or an RFP, for a Design Build “Contractor to supply a Taylor Made Pump […]

“See you at the station”

“Taylor Made The Pump Station That Stays Clean” It is a bit of an oxymoron, that is to keep a sewer and or storm water lift station clean, but that is what Taylor Made Pump stations did! In fact Taylor patented a method of cleaning a sewer lift station that is both simple and safe. […]

The Preferred Method of Securing a Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station

It all started with ISTEA, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. This act allowed states under the Federal Aid Highway Program to forego open and competitive bidding procurement for the alternative method of contracting of Design/Build. It is a comprehensive and voluminous document that sadly excludes most small business participation and rather taints the basis […]

Order your Packaged Waste Water Lift Station, right the first time.

When ordering a “Packaged Waste Water Lift Station” it is helpful to identify and understand what performance characteristic each and every component handles. Manufactures of all the individual components that make up “the complete package” spend much time in our facility demonstrating the quality and benefit of their product. The product demonstrations are a great […]

“See you at the station” Do you know the Definitions of the components that make up a Packaged Waste Water Lift Station?

Taylor Made Pump Stations “Writes The Book” or in this case a booklet on the definitions of the individual components that make a complete Packaged Waste Water Lift Station! We will start with defining the basic parts of the Packaged Waste Water Lift Station.   Packaged Waste Water Lift Station.  Is a concept of packaging […]

“See You at the Station” What kind of business is a supplier of “A Prepackaged Waste Water Lift Station“?

The best definition of a Prepackaged Waste Water lift Station business is as follows. “A business that assembles all the components necessary to make a complete working Lift Station, capable of moving the specific liquid waste as specified by a design engineer and shipped as a Prepackaged group of components, (usually in one large shipment, […]

See you at the Station – Save Your Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Stations

Congress authorizes omnibus spending bill under the title “Save our Stations” to fund the purchase of prefabricated waste water lift stations in an effort to quickly rebuild our aging sewage system! I do not believe that this is something that I read, probably more like something I imagined while pouring over the numerous articles of pump […]

See you at the Pump Station It Pays to Compute

The most advanced wastewater lift station, uses the most advanced computer Technology A wastewater lift station operator knows the basic truth regarding the operation of a wastewater lift station. A good PLC (programmable logic controller) installed in the modern wastewater lift station is more than a convenience, it is an efficient necessity. In this Blog, […]