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Lift Station Cleaning Made EZZ

December 22, 2022/in Blog/by Taylor Pump Stations

How important is it to keep your waste water lift station clean and well-maintained? Let’s just say that a lot is riding on its smooth and continuous operation! It is proper lift station cleaning and maintenance makes this all possible! A malfunction not only causes hassle and inconvenience for many, many people but could also lead to an environmental disaster.

Overflow conditions occur when personnel don’t properly and regularly maintain a lift station. When the wet well is not properly related to, floats can get tangled with rags or waste paper or get coated with scum. Pump impellers can jam up with rocks, sticks, rags, etc. And broken or disconnected electrical cables can go unnoticed until overflow situations occur.

That being said, cleaning and maintenance of lift station wet wells is traditionally a nasty business! Wet wells commonly hold decomposing organic products such as human fecal matter, other chemicals, and industry waste by-products. This mixture of hazardous waste requires a lift station that is functional at all times, but the very nature of its contents can discourage crews from relating the wet well as often as they should. And it’s hard to blame the crews for not wanting to go down there! Working in confined spaces with effluent and hazardous waste is not only unpleasant, it is dangerous!

Lift Station Cleaning Can Actually be a Simple Process

The EZZ-Klean™ System by Taylor Pump Stations now offers a safer and more economical system for cleaning sewage and wastewater lift station wet wells. Maintenance personnel can now empty and clean without entering the confined space of the wet well.

The EZZ-Klean™ consist of a permanent, high density polyethylene (HDPE) wide mouth intake with HDPE pipe running to the top. It is easy to connect a VAC Truck or similar equipment and suck out debris and muck. Taylor Made wet well have floors that slope towards the wide mouth intake.

The EZZ-Klean™ Also Prevents Overflows in Power Outages

The bright red EZZ Klean tube stands ready to help lower the effluent in the event of a power loss and subsequent pump shut down. Crews can quickly connect to the top and drain the wet well without looking for keys or special wrenches to remove hatches.

Overflows, of course, are environmental hazards that will be scrutinized by regulatory agencies. Fines and clean-up can lead to extraordinary costs. A well planned pump station cleaning and maintenance program is essential!

DEQ Delivers High Praise for Design & Efficacy of Taylor’s New Southport Lumber Mill Lift Station.

June 9, 2023/in Blog, Featured/by Taylor Pump Stations

On May 9, 2023 the Oregon DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) assembled a team of field agents to review Taylor’s newly installed pump station at Southport Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Oregon.

Bill Meyer, delivered high praise for the pump station’s design and efficacy, saying this sets a standard for the industry to live up to. “Mark, I can’t give you a specific endorsement as to your products superiority over another lift station, however I can say – I like this system’s functionality and its ability to clarify storm run-off and I can reference this mill site so others in the industry can come and see it for themselves.”

Flygt Pump Systems

May 20, 2010/by Mark Taylor

We Proudly Offer Flygt Pump Systems & Work with Many Other Quality Brands

The new generation N-Pumps are engineered to give you efficient reliable and trouble-free pumping over long periods of heavy use. This new series of pumps has a dramatic positive effect on the total life costs of your installation.

Externally, you’ll notice the difference right away: these smooth new shapes are easy to keep clean and easier to service. But it’s inside where the difference really counts.

At the heart of the new generation N-Pumps, you’ll find the patented N-hydraulics. The unique, semi-open impeller, combined with the relief groove in the volute, has been proven to reduce the risk of clogging and maintain pumping efficiency, even under the worst of conditions.

All motors are built with Class H insulation and incorporate improved cooling. This means less heat and longer component life. Plus there is a separate inspection chamber located below the motor housing with a built-in sensor to provide early warning and facilitate maintenance!

Remember at Taylor Pump Stations we offer genuinely impartial advice. We have a great relationship with ITT/Flygt and also work seamlessly with clients no matter which pump line they choose. We offer you the best possible advice not only in choosing the right components and designing the ideal pump station for your unique needs, but also the most cost effective.

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Wet Wells

May 20, 2010/by Mark Taylor

Be Sure Your Stormwater Lift Station Meets DEQ Regulations

April 28, 2022/in Blog/by Taylor Pump Stations

The experts at Taylor Pump Stations understand the legal fine points and complexity assuring that your stormwater lift station meets DEQ regulations and specifications. DEQ specifications are complicated and difficult to understand. When you work with Taylor’s experienced team, you can be certain that you have nothing to worry about.

Will Your Stormwater Lift Station meet DEQ Regulations?

The Purpose of DEQ Stormwater Regulation & Concern for the Environment

Runoff from metal and bitumen roofs, as well as runoff from asphalt parking lots, contains petroleum and other contaminants. These need to be reduced before runoff can enter our waterways. Your pump station must comply with DEQ purification requirements and retention times while simultaneously meeting peak flow demands. Top engineering firms choose us again and again because of our ability to successfully make both happen.

Many Western states now apply strict quarterly monitoring to stormwater runoff. Operators face fines when wastewater contaminants, such as metals, oils, chemicals or any of 126 varying substances exceed permissible limits.At Taylor, we understand these permissible limits so you don’t have to. We design lift stations that work with purification systems ensuring your compliance.

How Taylor Assures Your Lift Station Complies with DEQ Specifications

Methods for purifying water

Methods used to to retard the movement of harmful pollutants and reduce contaminants are retention, timed dosing, earthen bio swales with a sub strata of sand medium and weirs or baffles placed within the treatment cell to allow each feature to retard the movements for harmful pollutants.

Our Lift Station Models and Process

Our lift stations have a variety of flow handling capabilities, making them perfectly suited for stormwater applications. We most often use Muni 108™️, Muni-105™️, Muni- 106™️ for stormwater.

Design engineers work with Taylor Pump Stations personnel to assess the flow requirements and coordinate specific pump and impeller design with the control features to optimize energy use and overall efficiency of the treatment system. Engineering sends peak flow and low point data to our pump application tech so we can start matching the pump and control panel that will produce the best efficiency model to move the water.

The Base Siemens 10 point PLC is the controller we most often use for stormwater applications. Muni 108™️, Muni-105™️, Muni- 106™️ all use this controller. This simple but efficient controller offers multiple functions from alarms, to partly optimizing flows and basic call outs like pump hour meters.

We Know the Specifications and Ensure that Your Stormwater Lift Station meets DEQ Regulations

The new, stricter regulations propelled us to perfect and offer ready made system for stormwater treatment. Leading North West environmental and engineering firms regularly choose the industry leading Muni -105™️, Muni-106™️ and Muni-108 to fulfill a wide range of runoff and flow requirements.

Our company’s identifying green color signifies our commitment to build green. The color comes from the Enviro-Green™️ Hi- Build Epoxy that seals our wet wells.

Experience and Compliance in Other Industries

Taylor Pump Stations has 40 years of experience meeting unique demands and strict regulations in numerous industries. We successfully address the high biological oxygen demand that is intrinsic in the food and spirits industry. We find solutions for moving liquids of varying temperatures and viscosities with energy efficiency and corrosion protection. This vast storehouse of experience and problem solving from other industries informs our work with stormwater lift stations.

Corrosion shortens the life of almost all components in a lift station. Because of our extensive experience with corrosive liquids, Taylor Pump Stations believes we can give you, our customer, double the value in a packaged lift station purchase by doubling its mean time before failure.

Photo by Atilla Bingöl on Unsplash

Winery Pump Stations – Challenges and Solutions

March 18, 2021/in Blog/by Taylor Pump Stations

Winery pump stations pose a number of challenges for the packaged wastewater lift station builder. The breakdown of the liquid mash, containing fruit and stems, produces wastewater of a high ph. The wastewater also contains other potentially harmful chemicals and there are strict guidelines for its disposal. Compounding this situation, wash down water temperature is generally in the range of 150-175 degrees. Taylor Pump Stations has the experience and expertise to meet these challenges, ensuring that your pump station will function perfectly for many years.

Taylor Designs Winery Pump Stations for Longevity. We Build Them to Process and Withstand High Heat, High ph and Corrosive Chemicals.

Our winery pump station wet wells are also holding wells. This helps to deal with both heat and ph. We also carefully consider the protection level and durability of each individual component in the wet well. This makes our pump station durable and hassle free.

The “hot water” dynamic has a major corrosive effect on the stations internal components. It is more than just a degree point on a thermal gauge and we take it into account in every aspect of the design. Heat rises in the wet well and produces caustic vapors when it come into contact with the organic waste. These vapors “pop” and degrade the wet well components like cavitation effects on a pumps impeller.

Experience is a Must for Winery Lift Station Packagers.

There is surprisingly little information available in the form of technical books or white papers regarding design criteria for pumping conveyances and holding wells where hot water and the ensuing organic degradation occurs. We acquired our expertise through experience and direct conversation with engineering experts. So “in a nutshell” or this case “in a wet well,” the idiom of “all things considered” is very important in building a wastewater lift station that will withstand the eroding effects of hot water in “the mash.”

Heat is energy.

That energy has to dissipate. Any pumping vault holding high temperature wastewater must employ proper venting. The high temperature water combined with the organics, produces a high ph liquid with a ph that is upwards of 7-11. Heat rises in the form of vapors, which condense back to liquid on the underside of the lid. The metal and concrete components at this location experience the greatest amount of corrosion. We place the epoxy in two distinct coats on these components. This insures that each layer dries before placing the final coating.

A proper duct seal is also a very important component in the high temperature waste water lift station. It provides crucial protection against the corrosive vapors entering into the all-important electrical components in the control panel.

The above narrative is just the basic 1,2 and 3 of building a wash down winery pump station. There are so many minute details that we take into account when designing a quality winery wash down lift station. We are also licensed general engineering contractors and we know well the benefit of placing the best components in the ground so that they will last for many years. Please feel free to call on us, if you’re considering such a lift station. We’ll put our 42 years of experience to work for you!

You may also want to read Challenges of Building Wash Down Packaged Lift Station for Breweries – Here!

Photo by Kym Ellis

Wastewater Lift Stations Engineering

January 20, 2021/in Blog/by Taylor Pump Stations

Few if any wastewater lift stations , buildings, flyovers, highways, retention walls, dams are built without the expertise of a civil engineer. Civil engineers have vast knowledge of sewage and wastewater systems and this is key to the successful install of the Taylor packaged wastewater lift station. We contact the civil engineer at the inception of each design. This is imperative because, from the start, they work with the many regulatory agencies that must approve the project. Agencies like the DEQ and NOAA Fisheries that oversee the protection of the environment and our oceans and shorelines.

Wastewater Lift Stations Specifications

Engineering “specifications” provide the technical narrative that inform selection of components and general construction standards for the packaged wastewater lift station. At Taylor Pump Stations, we take the issue of specifications seriously! This leads to excellent relationships with civil engineers. Civil engineers generally lead the engineering team that often includes electrical, mechanical, and structural engineers. Together, the team makes sure that the control and piping systems of the packaged wastewater lift station meet all specifications. Civil engineers choose to work with Taylor Pump Stations because they know the specifications we incorporate in our packaged wastewater lift stations are derived from top government and institutional agencies.

Safety

Engineers have a special appreciation for safety features. That’s why so many design engineers choose to work with us and install our proprietary EZZ-Klean wet well cleaning component. Engineers are trained extensively in the dangers of working in confined spaces and they know that a wastewater lift station is a particularly hazardous confined space. Taylor Pump Stations is a licensed dealer of The EZZ-Klean™️device. This Device is like a central Vacuum cleaner for the home. We place the built in stationary VacTube™️ optimally at the bottom of the well and has an easy release cap at the top of the lid to make for a safe and EZZ- Klean process. We have employed the EZZ-Klean in large municipal applications like the City Of Portland Parks Department as well as small micro septic tanks and even bilges of boats.

Procurement Process

The procurement process starts with the Public Works Department or a government agency. The solicitation is usually via an Standard Request for Proposals or as its abbreviated call out an RFP. We bid on all wastewater lift stations but we primarily look for lift stations that are a component of the overall wastewater conveyance system. We utilize industry publications such as Water and Waste Digest as well as Pumps and Systems to locate agencies and design firms that are currently working on a wastewater lift station design.

Taylor Pump Stations makes ordering a packaged wastewater lift station simple! This is on one of many features that engineers like. The MUNI- 105™️The MUNI- 106 ™️and the MUNI-108 ™️are all packaged duplex lift stations. They all have high standard municipal specifications incorporated in their design. The numbering designation i.e. “105 “ refers to the well’s size. The “well” or “wet well” is the holding structure for the wastewater and pumping equipment. The Muni “105” is 10 ft. deep and 5 ft. in diameter. Depth can be increased but The Muni “105” diameter is always 5ft. This naming logic continues with the MUNI- 106 and the MUNI-108.

Work with us!

.We have provided wastewater lift stations for The Department of Defense, leading environmental firms and Indian Nations. We look for projects and engineers that specialize in the process and control of wastewater, biological waste, industrial plant wash down facilities, as well as the complexities of high PH processing found in wineries and breweries.

Call Taylor Pump Stations today and let us show you how we address both quality and safety within a packaged wastewater lift station design. We have an excellent reputation in the engineering community and will make sure your project meets all specifications required by governing agencies.

What is a Pump Station?

October 19, 2020/in Blog/by Taylor Pump Stations

New Pump Station California Infrastructure Growth

November 8, 2019/in Blog, Featured/by Taylor Pump Stations

Taylor Grows with Expansive Pump Station California Infrastructure Growth Market.

Uplifting News From Taylor Wastewater Pump / Lift Stations

Taylor made a strong entrance in the pump Station California infrastructure growth market. We supplied design and construction services to a public works entity and and a prominent Indian Nation. The Lake County Water District, and The Hoopa Indian Nation called on Taylor Pump Stations for upgrades to their existing waste water pumping needs. Taylor Pump Stations is a strong regional supplier of wastewater and storm water lift /pump stations. Also, we offer solutions that assist clients in their budgetary decision making process.

Traditionally, public agencies struggle to fund the repair and upkeep of the essential waste water infrastructure. Potholes and traffic gridlock are popular concerns so they are easily funded. But deteriorating pump stations and lift stations are hidden from the public eye and often neglected. Because California is serious about environmental regulations, the state is now becoming a leader in addressing pump station California infrastructure! California is putting taxpayer money to work and rebuilding the wastewater pump stations and pipelines across the state.

At Taylor Pump Stations, we work with all owners and managers of government agencies with ideas and solutions that fit the respective agencies budget. Whether we repair an immediate problem or supply a brand new wastewater lift station, our advice and work is informed by 40 years of experience in the wastewater pumping industry.

We are a leader in design of wet wells for the 21st century and even hold some of the few patents in the wastewater pumping industry! Read about or patents HERE!