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The Northern Most US Pump / Lift Station Shemya, Alaska

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The Most Northerly US Pump / Lift Station Shemya, Alaska

The Northern most pump station in the US was build by Taylor Pump Stations! We completed this Shemya, Alaska pump / lift station in early 2019! Taylor Pump Stations secured the contract because of our ability to work within the strict time constraints dictated by Alaskan weather. We also met funding requirements and we were able to deliver on the Engineer’s tough requirements. “I need a waste water lift station that will work in our corrosive marine environment.”

Shemya Island, Alaska – A Harsh Maritime Environment

Shemya Island, Alaska, Home of North Most US Pump Lift Station

Shemya Island, Alaska, Home of North Most US Pump Lift Station by Taylor Pump Stations Photo Credit

We  can design  our Pump / Lift Stations around the extra heavy-duty HDPE no-leak “Muni 105” wet well.  Along with 316 fasteners and rails with HI build epoxy coating on all layers and components. Because of high wind and sea water exposure in Shemya, Alaska, a small island in the Bering Sea, a NEMA 4X HDPE enclosure was stipulated to best offset the harsh marine environment. This pump down panel has external LED lights for each pump with alert lights for on/off states. A Manual on/off/ run toggle is provided for each motor. The Muni-105 features alteration of Duplex Pumps after each pump cycle.

Alarming is both visual and audio, with a bright red flashing beacon placed on the side for wetter, marine environments. A push to silence switch is located on the inside of the door. This is a class 1 sewage environment panel with intrinsically safe relays for the flow control switches. Flow control is via mechanical reed type switches operating for ‘lead then lag,’ and ‘high both pumps,’ the ‘high/high float’ insures redundancies for alarm condition.

Working with Special Requirement and in Difficult Places is our Specialty

We specialize in working with the unique requirements of every environment including harsh environments. Our pump /lift station in Shemya, Alaska is one of many examples of how we surpass all expectations and adapt to the special needs of each individual project.

Oldcastle Rolls Out Patented EZZ Klean, Pump Station: The Muni 106

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Taylor Made Park 105 EZZ-Klean™ Waste Water Park Pump Station

Taylor Made Completes EZZ Klean™ Waste Water Park Pump Station for the City of Portland

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The EZZ-Klean™ Municipal 105 Waste Water Park Pump Station by Taylor Made Pump Stations was recently selected by the City of Portland, Oregon because of the unique emphasis on worker safety. Widely known as one of the most environmentally conscious cities in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Parks Department chose Taylor Made in an effort to protect staff as well as the environment. This design was customized specifically for the job, using the EZZ -Screen™ and EZZ- Klean™ components. The vacuum head was engineered to pump out from within the screen in an effort to save countless maintenance hours on cleaning required by traditional systems.

The City was so impressed with the EZZ- Screen™ that they requested a second customize installation before the completion of the first. This design will be one of the first HDPE high-flow screens in which two screens have been placed in a municipal wastewater station. Taylor Made will return to add features to assist in removing an initial splice box that the City incorporated into the station design to enable them to address vandalism concerns.

Behind every every EZZ-Klean™ Muni 105Waste Water Park Pump Station is a high-quality duplex control panel with redundancy in circuit control supplied by Rockwell Automation. The Muni 105 panel comes in either a High Density Polyethylene NEMA 4 cabinet or a 14 gauge powder-coated enclosure. Both are well-suited for outdoor use. The success of the Muni 105 panel is a step up in municipal wastewater flow control from the Muni 104. The controller has multiple settings for duplexing operation and low level off, lead/lag switching and a high level alarm float switch. A transducer option is available for flow control and liquid level sendings. An alternating switch activates the lead/lag operation. NEMA approved intrinsic barriers are installed within every panel. A Rockwell/Allen/Bradley PLC is a standard feature on the Muni 105 Taylor Pump Station and is the distinguishing upgrade from the Muni 104 Pump Station panel.

This entry-level controller has an easily expandable format to meet telemetry requirements, full supervisory control and data acquisition. The PLC at its foundation allows for visual monitoring of all basic pump functions. It offers small municipalities and large park systems the ability to remotely communicate with one another.

The new Taylor Made Park 105 EZZ-Klean™ Station features an epoxy coating for easy cleaning and lifelong hydrogen sulfide protection. Clogs and unnecessary damage will no longer cause headaches and expensive system repairs. The one of a kind EZZ-Screen™ prevents accidentally flushed items such as metal toys, utensils and even rocks from damaging the system.

The Taylor Made Park 105 EZZ-Klean™ patented design addresses the regulatory issues of Oregon OSHA’s most recent confined space rules making maintenance simple and safe. The bright green EZZ-Klean™ tube at the top of the station reminds maintenance crews to simply “Pop the Top” to perform routine maintenance that is quick, easy and safe. Taylor Made Pump Stations save valuable time and money when compared to conventional wastewater lift stations.

Imagine a hassle free pump station! Discover the Taylor Made difference and install the Park 105 EZZ-Klean™ Waste Water Park Pump Station today. The simple maintenance and cost effective savings of Taylor Made Pump Stations streamline wastewater systems. Taylor Made staff are licensed DEQ contractors, providing clients with over 35 years of knowledge and experience.

See you at the Station

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For good communication with your Packaged Pump Station, Listen to it!

Are you listening to it? So much to learn when we listen. A very basic idiom which we should practice in all facets of social interaction with our coworkers and even with our teenage children. “Heck” I have a son who knows everything so I probably listen to him even more. It is very difficult to understand my sons’ line of thinking at times but it’s nice when I occasionally glean some good information from him. Likewise, the Rotodynamic (centrifugal) pump can emit a lot of information from the depths of its internal components. As someone who has been around machinery all my life, mostly that associated with the logging industry, I can relate to a mechanic or operator saying something just don’t sound right with that ole shovel loader. My old diesel mechanic, was the best trouble shooter from simply placing his hand on the casing. Housing, pan of any mechanical component especially a rotary screw compressor or a Kawasaki hydraulic gear pump.

The Packaged Pump Station has all kind of “ antenna” related transmitters to get a feel of what your pump station motors and the rotary components are doing or not doing. The Mechanical Piping and support components are easy to place a conduit onto Waste Water discharge piping in which to lend a ear to and let the good clear communication begin. The development of the leak detection field has lent itself to the Pump station trouble shooting end of things. Sonde devices of varying kinds along with the old tried and true brass disk with emitter tubes attached when set onto the pump casing “its” voice becomes clear. Those sounds when set to the discerning ear, especially when the device is placed on the adjacent pump as in the case of a duplex pump station, the Pump Station technician will know trouble when he hears it. A warning here, perform all electrical tests for errant current at the motor and casing to insure against the risk of electrocution. Also, hold the ear piece away from the ear and slowly move the end toward your ear so as not to damage the ear drum, these devices are sensitive and cavitation along with other pump trouble shooting indications can really “blare” out at you. . It is quite simple to adapt longer tubes to stethoscope type listening tools to help in those long reach situations
Always check for the presence of the life robbing gasses that are present in most “waste Water Pump Stations” namely methane and hydrogen sulfide gas. For that test the one sense you do not want to rely on is your smell, a simple gas monitor will tell you all you need to know. Hearing combined with the sense of feel can put you in touch with the “Heart and Soul” of the Packaged waste water station, “The Pump”. When you can both hear and feel vibration it maximizes your trouble shooting efforts. Below is the list of objects and conditions that will produce audible sounds that you may want to investigate further to avoid damage to the equipment in a Waste Water Pump Station.

  1. The “Ragging” of a pump quite simply produces drag or dull hum, the problem is distinct to the ear. Especially when compared to the adjacent free pump.
  2. Cavitation, what pump technician cannot detect the rough “gravel pop” sounds of air pockets imploding. (See the phenomena of cavitation, in an earlier blog.)
  3. Resonance or vibration, you can hear it before who feel it. The trained ear can hear the pump running off the Best Efficiency Point or a loose imbed bolt, particularly noticeable if using the across the line method of starting the pump, but you will hear the vibration at full speed as a tuning fork resonance wave.

There are many more troubled sounds to listen to within the centrifugal Waste Water Pump, with time and practice you will know what your Waste Water Pump Station is trying to tell you.

Now, listen to this, we’ll see you next time “At the Station”

SEATTLE TRANSFER STATION

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“Extra Extra Extra Read All About it Taylor Pump Stations choosen as Prefered Supplier for Seattle Transfer Station.”

It was an honor to be chosen as the only referenced “Packaged Storm Water Pump Station Supplier” for the Seattle Transfer Station. Seattle Public Utilities was the governing body and I found their specifications to reflect that of an experienced governmental utility that knows well the design and components of a quality Packaged Storm Water Lift Station. To be asked to submit for review the strengths of my Packaged Storm Water Pump Station, with its Patented EZZ-Klean design as well our Ezz-Vac system was a reflection of Taylor’s excellent team of suppliers and personnel. We enjoy building relationships with leading professionals in the Pump Station industry and found the engineering team of Parametrix Engineers to be “Tops” in all matters relating to the the initial RFQ to the timely responses of our questions and through to where we were was chosen as the only recommended vendor, “To Provide Lift Station As A Packaged Unit,*** Taylor Pump Stations, Mark Taylor, 541- 779-3565”.

I would like to thank all the suppliers who help build our Waste Water Lift Stations and Storm Water Lift Stations, these companies represent some of the finest Lift Station Products and professionals in the world!

EZZ-KLEAN & EZZ-VAC
Oldcastle Concrete Products.
Goulds Pumps
Tag Automation Group

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The decision to purchase a Packaged Waste Water Pump Station “Made Easy”

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Nice, to’ see you at the Station”. I’d like to discuss with you your decision to purchase a “Packaged Waste Water Pump Station”, and hopefully make the purchasing decision a little easier. I am going to “pump up” the benefits of the new Taylor “EZZ™ Klean” waste water pump station, for just a moment, then move on to more basic considerations that I believe are important in the complete package purchase. The Taylor “EZZ™ Klean Waste Water Pump Station. Is the only packaged pump station on the market today with the benefits and ease of cleaning is in the name itself! The Taylor “EZZ-KLEAN” Packaged Waste Water Pump Station employs a United States Patented design that makes cleaning of the station easy or “EZZ”. The packaged waste Water pump station is the topic of this blog so we are not going to address the option of an assembled and built in place waste water station. The Waste Water Pump Station with all its configurations and options as well as the option of a Dry Prime surface mount or submersible waste water station are simple in design. The surface dry prime arrangement will be the subject of another blog at a later time. The components of a submersible waste water station all of which need periodic maintenance, consist of the Wet Well, the pumps, (most commonly a duplex arrangement) along with guide rails and discharge elbows; Plug Valves and Check Valves along with a valve vault are part of the package. Electric equipment in the form of a motor control center with varying options of frequency drives and programmable logic controls complete the base options for a waste water pump station.

This blog is not covering whether you the, Professional engineer, Public Works Official or Private Developer or Contractor buys a” Chevy or a Ford” pump. That will be a product of how much technical data and research you perform on the specific pump and motor and considering all the information provided by sales representative along with the input provided by the municipality and their representative.

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“Best Management Practices means Best Maintenance Practices when it comes to the Waste Water Pump Station”

Anyone involved in the waste water industry knows of the benefits of “BMPs” as it applies to the Waste Water Pump Station. The decision to purchase a packaged waste water pump station should be made with emphasis placed on the ease of maintenance and cleaning of the station. Design features inherent in the Packaged Waste Water Station effect maintenance costs, but few purchasing agents give much credence to this fact in their buying decision. After a career in the waste water pumping industry, mostly as a Project Manager involved in the installation of waste water pump stations, I know that it’s important to consider many factors related to the quality of the components as well as long term maintenance costs of the waste water station. The effects of purchasing a Waste Water Pump Station with difficult maintenance aspects can be much like purchasing a house with a poorly constructed foundation, I.E. neither instance is easy to fix. If you are the individual responsible for the final specification of the waste water lift station that is to be placed into service can we assume you at a minimum looked at the long term maintenance and cleaning costs of this sizable capital investment. There are the basic items of a packaged waste water lift station that will contribute to the end quality of the station. These Items include Pre-marked lid socket receiver for the guide retrieval pipe. This feature is built in to insure that the guide rails for pump retrieval are placed precisely vertical. This feature seems so basic that one might think it is supplied on every packaged waste water station; the fact is, it is not. The purchasing agent should request that the Packaged Waste Water Pump Station suppliers have the option of providing additional sealing options at each joint of the wet well. This includes HDPE bands “electro-fused” and placed around the inside of each barrel section, making an infiltration issue very remote. Remember the pumping of ground water is a kilowatt robbing fact that is assured to increase in costs as power rates are assured to go up. What are the features of the Packaged Waste Water Pump Station that will inhibit Hydrogen Sulfide action? The premier method of preventing hydrogen sulfide corrosion of the concrete is to line the interior of the wet well with a 30 mil thick layer of HDPE, or a similar coat of an epoxy product. Another quality control measure that most established waste water packaged pump station suppliers put forth is to have all stainless steel vents and hatches plastic vacuum wrapped. This of course helps to defend against iron oxides that are prevalent in the cutting of ferrous pipes and other steel products. Consider specifying the EZZ ™Klean device as a simple access tube and vacuum head for its long term benefit of cutting the time in removing debris and harmful build up in the wet well.

It is our goal at Taylor Pump Stations to offer you the options that will produce savings in having a Waste Water Pump Station that will withstand all the harmful effects that a waste environment has to endure and will make for an easier and safer station to maintain.

Ashland Pump Station

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The Engineering Division has received a single bid for the replacement of the North Main Street Sanitary Sewer Pump Station. The bid of $367,375.00 was submitted by Taylor Site Development of Medford, OR.
The North Main Sanitary Sewer Pump Station was constructed in the early 1960’s and serves the northwesterly area of Ashland including the Ashland Mine Road and Schofield Street areas.  The pump station is rapidly deteriorating and has no capacity to provide for anticipated growth within its service area.  This project has been identified as a priority project in the current Capital Improvement Plan.
Construction of a sewer pump station is a specialty with few local firms having the expertise to perform the work.  For that reason a “pre-packaged” pump station was specified and an extended bid calendar selected to help promote more interest among local firms.  The bid advertisement was published locally and statewide beginning on April 9, 2007 with the bid opening held on May 22, 2007 providing a 43 calendar bid window.  Additionally, bid advertisements and/or bid packages were mailed to eight plan centers and to seventeen prospective bidders.  Even with an extended bid window and a saturation of advertising, only a single bid was received.

Staff recommends approval of the attached contract with Taylor Site Development, Inc. to construct the North Main Pump Station at a cost of $367,375.00.

Article derived from City Council of Information.

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October 22, 2007
Mark Taylor
Taylor Site Development Inc.
PO Box 537
1928 Stewart
Medford, OR 97501

RE:   NORTH MAIN SEWER PUMP STATION REPLACEMENT PROJECT NO. 2004-06

Dear Mark:

As of this date all work on the North Main Pump Station is complete and has been inspected, approved and accepted by the City of Ashland.  Thank you for a job well done.  We have enjoyed working with you and your crews on this project and appreciate your timely completion of the project.

The final payment including retainage release, has been authorized and will be sent shortly.

Please be reminded that this final acceptance marks the beginning of the 24 month materials and workmanship warranty as specified in the contract documents.

Thanks again for your good work on this project.

Sincerely,

James H. Olson
City Surveyor / Project Manager

Energy Saving Pump Stations

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If engineers would design with low resistant piping in the form of HDPE pipe and long turn smooth wall fittings, to create truly energy saving pump stations, it truly would be the gift that keeps on giving!

Years ago now, back in the late 80’s there was a much touted breakthrough in the electrical field called high temperature superconductivity. In brevity, the excitement was born from the precept if our electrical system, IE the conductors, can operate under a condition of zero resistance, energy savings throughout the world would be dramatically reduced. Whether an electrical substation or a Waste Water Lift Station the goal at least when it comes to electrical current movement is zero resistance. Superconductivity and the possibility to conduct electricity across the United States and beyond with no resistance is exciting. Likewise, it is just as exciting to think of superconductivities counterpart that of moving of fluids with pumps at low friction/resistance factors as an equally enticing breakthrough and this engineering feat is happening now. At Taylor Pump Stations our packaged water and Wastewater lift stations utilize a two system approach to maximize the savings in electricity use. Since utilizing varying types Frequency Drives is the predominant method of energy savings within the Packaged Water and Waste Water Lift Station at Taylor Pump Station we first look at the low hanging fruit of energy savings: friction reduction. An additional benifit in utilizing low co-efficient of friction materials such as HDPE and long radius ells is there is usually initial cost savings in the materials when compared to Ductile Iron whether cement lined or not and also in the install cost of the lighter weight HDPE materials.

”To Save or Not to Save”, on energy consumption, that is the question.

Pump stationThink about it, many design professionals are stepping over dollars to save a dime by concentrating only on premium efficient motors and variable speed drives. The first observation is these components are expensive to acquire and in many instances have a negative overall cost savings when initial capital cost are considered along with additional maintenance costs. The search for energy savings and the mandate for energy efficient electric motors was started by our government back in the early nineties. A well intentioned program and yet only 8 % of energy loss is related to the electric motor. If in all Water and especially in Waste Water Pump applications if we could lower the Hazen-Williams friction factor to that of plastic pipes one very prominent event happens! In the prior statement the experienced applications engineer could conclude the sentences main point is that the savings grow each year as the piping remains relative smooth. The consequence of using low friction plastics, long radius turns of the same materials is that the pressure is reduced immediately. More importantly it’s the long term benefits of plastic pipe that really begins to reap benefits in saved energy consumption. By studying the Hazen-Williams formula we see the exponential increase in friction as the annular area begins to close from corrosion over time. The buildup makes the pump work hard to overcome a rising main restricted and in many cases the pressure line can be a mile long. Any Pumping system in which pressure is reduce of course has a direct relationship to energy savings. So, long after the engineer stands on the “Alley OOP” engineering belief that Ductile Iron is the only way to go- the pump goes to work and every year thereafter to pump through a highly restricted steel line. It is happening 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, throughout the year, pumps are straining and drawing excess energy all because engineers ”Can’t see the light through the corroded steel pipe”. Pumps in all there forms consume nearly 25% world’s energy. If engineers would design with it in mind to reduce the head requirements of fluid handling pumps by utilizing the high quality, proven strong HDPE piping and fitting products available Cities and private owners alike would have multiple lines of savings to add up. Probably a few less sanitary sewer overflows would occur as there would be less pump failures due to lower friction factors of HDPE piping resulting in greater MTBF of the motors. Up to 2% savings in KWH’s of electricity used as the pumps work below the curve possibly being able to lessen the horsepower of the motor. Less carbon footprint in the reduced times needed to “Pig” plastic pipe as compared to the cleaning intervals required for ductile iron piping. No repairs to the HDPE from corrosive soil conditions that eat into steel and ductile pipe.

The order is in, for your next Packaged Waste Water Lift Station, give it the easy flow characteristics of HDPE. At Taylor Pump Stations we believe in using simple but strong easy to clean components. We specifically designed and received a U.S Patent on an easy to clean wet well, we call the EZZ-Klean Station.

Call us to save on your next Waste Water Lift Station. We will “See you next week, at the station”

“See you at the Station”

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There is a Time and Place for a “Packaged Sewer Lift Station”

Taylor Wet WellsThe decision whether to place into service a Packaged Sewer Lift Station or put out to bid a Conventional RFP with a private engineering firm designing every detail of the proposed sewer lift station is an important one! Both methods have their distinct advantages and disadvantages. The big question that comes up is, when is that time and place for a Packaged Sewer Lift Station in the whole “design of things”. That’s what we are really talking about “The Design” and secondly, “How much time do we have. The Packaged Sewer Lift Station is not going to be applicable in the case of a Macro station where average flows approach several thousand GPM, and holding wells become necessary to size in the range of 12’ in diameter and greater. I know of several studies in comparing the savings of either specifying  a “Packaged Sewer Lift Station” or opting for the alternative, where the standard Public request for bids solicitation is paced in builder’s exchanges and area newspapers.  Actually both means of securing a Sewer Lift Station are good and the studies written by those favoring each method are always informative and strong on content. I feel my analysis of the best way to attain a municipal or private Sewer Lift station is without a slant either way. I own two companies, one is a licensed contracting firm that bids and bonds public works projects under the standard RFP and engineer design type of project.  A second company I own is Taylor Made Pump Stations, we “Design/Build “Package Sewer Lift Stations, mostly for state and federal agencies.  What I see as advantages in one system over the other is often offset by a feature or design method I like with either option..

The design component that comes out on top in a direct comparison of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station and a Contractor build in place public works sewer lift station is the control and  SCADA Package.

“The additional time the design team has in communicating makes for a better communication system when it comes to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition components,(SCADA)“

Here goes a bit of logic if you will when it comes to whats more logical in the choice to design in house the control package or write into the specifications “The control package will be an integral package as part of  the design components in a complete and Packaged Sewer Lift Station as Made by Taylor Made Pump Station or equal. OK, the effluent is really flowing so to speak and the plug for my station was only meant to state that something “Taylor-ed” to a particular main component is usually better: I’ll stop now. Yes, it is true that both means of procurement use “Boiler-mate Language”. The difference is the established Packaged Sewer lift Station Manufacturer can work on the control specification with the electrical designer from a two way informational approach as to what will work the best There is a lot of coordination and detail required in the standard plan to put a Sewer Lift Station out to bid.  As an engineer  it consumes much of your time to engineer the mentioned standard model of design specifications Now, quite naturally it also produces many billable hours, and that can be a good thing, for the firm if that is all that’s to be considered. I can see where specifying a control package in the standard bid format leaves a bunch of work for an usually “less than knowledgeable” contractor when it comes to the Supervisory Control and Data acquisition, programmable logic controller, HMI, and the basis for much of our control systems in the modern Packaged Sewer Lift Station, Ladder Logic. I can tell you this that most of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station builders have at least two independent control firms they work with. I can tell you from experience that they are a wealth of knowledge and it put the Package Sewer Lift Station Builder in the position of quickly being up and running and able to supply the right control package because the relationship is “on-going”.  It is kind of like knowing your regular dance partner is the best and together the steps come easy. With the Packaged Sewer Lift Station Builder the concrete wet well and related pumping equipment are the straightforward components. The control package integrated into most Packaged Sewer Lift Stations these days is much more involved. The need to integrate multiple ports and remote station connectivity issues all add up to little problems that are easily solved, because we probably had a “code” similar on the last station.

It all comes down to the old axiom, “Practice Makes Perfect” and in general the General Contractor and his forces do not perform Sewer Lift station Construction all that often.

Due to time constraints I have cut short some of the points that make a conventional Request for proposals on a new Municipal sewer lift station a great way to go. You will just have to wait till next week when we cover all that’s great in standard RFP for a Sewer Lift Station.

“See you next week at the station.”