“See you at the station” “At last, options for a sewer lift Stations that must be by-passed”

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The call came in from New York, and immediately I seen the light or in this case the fright as the Gentleman on the phone begin to discuss the issue of by-pass pumping. The location of the existing pump station was at a mall parking lot close to the entrance of Macy’s department store. The existing Sewer Lift Station was a conventional submersible design that the developer had little information on. Taylor Made Pump Stations has been design/planning complicated sewer by-passing for the placement of our patented EZZ-Klean™ station for years and this project definitely had my attention.

The best pump by-pass plan is usually designed by a licensed engineer with good error and omission insurance! On by-passing, we don’t plan to fail we fail to plan!

It really is not rocket science to build a packaged sewer lift station. Most of us in the industry understand the importance of every component fitting to a “T” or a “WYE” in the case of the piping connections of a packaged sewer lift station. This fact is so applicable to the sewer by-pass piping connections. This very astute customer wanted to be assured that our Taylor Made Pump Station was not a generic fit all “Sewer Lift Station” but would be applicable to this specific Sewer Lift Station in front of the Macy’s in Manhattan! Most pump station manufactures do not list pump station by-passing as one of their specialties. Taylor Made Pump Stations works with partners and professional associates including “Rain for Rent” and “ Thompson Pump”. These two entities offer technical expertise and are most knowledgeable in all aspects of by-pass pumping when installing a new Sewer Lift Station.

So you attained all the flow data on the sewage flows that the existing sewer lift station currently handles, now double it!

Most engineers will perform hydraulic calculations based on flows that are double the average flows into the station. It is vital that a team is assembled on any new Sewer Lift Station where the sewage must be by-passed. The Pump Supplier and the pump curve that is put forth for the specific Sewer Lift Station should be reviewed by all the team members including the owners’ representative, which is usually the design engineer. Important information that the Pump Supplier may not have like the by-pass operation is in front of a school or major department store will insure a detailed sewage pump by-pass plan!

Two separate plans for the same Sewer Lift Station.

The very point of this blog was to make clear the fact that you cannot have a successful placement of a new Sewer Lift Station without first confronting the existing sewer flows that are ever present on a Sewer Lift Station change out or retrofit. The government entity or private owner will not remember the nice job you did on replacing an old station with a high quality Taylor Made Pump Station if you flood a pristine river with raw sewage. The theory behind the two separate plans for each aspect of the Sewer lift Station build is the critical nature of the by-pass. The pump by-pass has to be planned to the last detail. The by-pass should be submitted to the design engineer for his or her review. When planning to replace an existing sewer lift station consider ordering a packaged sewer lift station from Taylor Made Pump Stations. The reasons to consider a packaged sewer lift station are many. A Packaged sewer lift station is less burdensome from the planning side of the equation and provides for peace of mind as you have one supplier to call should problems arise. At Taylor Made Pump Stations we will gladly help you with any pre-planning for by- pass pumping or other services you may need for a successful sewer lift station project. See you, next week at the station.

“See you at the Station”

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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 Station or equal Packaged sewer lift station” After 35 years in the municipal and residential sewage lift station business both as a contractor and packager, I offer the comparisons.

                         The Benefits of the Packaged lift Station
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        • 1. The Benefits Under The Rule “Known Quantity”
        • 2. Engineering time and design costs reduced as a standard model already exists.
        • 3. Optional equipment is specified quickly. Such Items as hoists and stainless hose bib racks can be added and data reviewed in real time.
        • 4. Integrator is often included with control package. (Usually limited to the specific job).
        • 5. Questions at the bidding phase are directed to the “Packaged Lift Station Supplier”, easing the engineer’s office staff time in taking questions.
        • 6. The Packaged Lift Station Supplier will add additional planning to insure the owner has the quality end product that meets the existing spec as well reduces parts inventory for the owner. This is a marketing norm as the “Packager” will see the opportunity for future business.
        • 7. A Packaged Lift Station Supplier has a better chance of having inventory on hand and many times an item that is appurtenant to the station but overlooked in the specs is available off the shelf. I’ve personally witnessed a major sub forgetting to order an auto-dialer that took weeks to attain.
        • 8. One source responsibility. This is important only when a problem arises, but this usually equates to an expedient fix of the problem.
        • 9. Condensed job duration. Packaged lift Station units just go in quicker.
        • 10. All submittals and warranty records can be supplied at any time in the projects schedule.

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      • 1. Contractor enterprises bidding to each supplier in an effort to drive down cost.
      • 2. Contractor responsibility is direct and a knowledgeable contractor can remedy most operational problems quickly.
      • 3. Contractor supplied station will many times have the “local flavor” of a contractor who lives in the area.
      • 4. Contractor relationship. Although a good contractor will be there to stand behind the Packaged Lift Station contractors take much pride in building their own lift stations.
      • 5. Contractor built station has one level of P&O built into their quote. The contractor built station is sometimes built at a lower overall “Design Built Station”.
      • 6. A good General Contractor will represent well any and all products they place into the Lift Station. Most General Contractors recognize the benefits of pre-manufactured bridge sections, wall panels or any packaged component that moves the project along quicker and saves on certified wages. The smaller General Contractors value this aspect less as they usually perform this work themselves.

 

 

At one time I attempted to build my own 32 Ford Roadster. I spent a lot of time attaining all the parts I needed and upon starting the project with the help of an experienced mechanic we got it running. After selling the car, I still was interested in street rods and in reading hobby magazines found a “builder” of custom rods in Los Angeles who made it his specialty to build these custom gems. His price for a nice quality build to my specs was at that time $ 17,000.00 dollars. I hung up the phone and told my wife “Boy I sure saved money on building my own hot rod, where she immediately assured me that I had nearly $17,000.00 in doing it myself. I said “no way” and bet her $100.00 that I had nowhere near seventeen grand in costs. Well as it turns out I was right but my wife refused to pay up as she claims $16,300.00 was close enough, (I was shocked at the hard dollars spent) and she said that I had to put a value on my time, but just like the contractor I enjoyed all that “knuckle busting”.

“See you at the Station”

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“Controlling the liquid limit in the packaged sewer lift station”

What’s down below can hurt you or the environment that surrounds the Packaged Sanitary Lift Station if your liquid monitoring equipment doesn’t function properly. Monitoring the waste water in Packaged Sewage Lift Station is becoming one of the more simplified tasks that are left to electronic measuring devices. Let’s look at some of your options on keeping an eye on the liquid level in your Packaged Sewer Lift Station. Monitoring and control of the liquid waste can be as simple as a magnetic float switch as a high level alarm and it also functions as a pump control switch. “What Floats Your Switch” is cause for alarm, no I mean literally, it can cause an alarm condition .We are going to move to other technology that monitors the waste water limit and leave the float switch, “hanging” for the moment, which is a play on words relating to the negative of floats hanging up at times.

“Advanced controls for the advanced Packaged Sewer Lift Station”

Keeping guard on the level of the sewage in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is usually performed by a hybrid system where both magnetic float switches and ultrasonic level transmitters are employed to regulate the level of the sewage and supply the owner with high and low level liquid alarms. Technology is optimized in the liquid level control applications and in the overall Packaged Lift Station when the design engineer confers with the owner to gain ample knowledge of their needs and budget.

“A Blog about Logging the Level of the liquid in your Packaged Sewer Lift Station”liquid level

Let’s look at the most common liquid measuring devices in the market today t for monitoring sewage waste in a Packaged Sewer Lift Stations. We have already touched on the simple control switch, the magnetic reed type switch .This sensor in the form of a resilient and plastic molded ball floats on the water surface and opens or closes in relation to the water level rising and falling. As simple as float sensors are, they cause many pumps to fail prematurely as they can “rag-up” and can create a continuous run of the pumps condition which can lead to early failure of pump motor.
The ultrasonic detection technology is another form of sensor. These devices use a transducer with send and receive capability. Because the speed of sound travels at 1081 ft./per. Sec. we can easily determine the time it takes a pulse of sound to travel through air and then is profiled into the sensor.
The negative aspect of the ultrasonic sensor is they are relative expensive and in sewage wet wells obstructions are plentiful making for a clear space in front of the sensor nearly impossible.

Submersible transmitters, use the hydrostatic pressures created at the bottom of the packaged lift station to indicate the level of liquid. The technology in the Submersible level transmitters uses 4-20mA , analog signal output related to a fixed level range that when combined with a tube to the surface compensates for barometric pressure .

The downside to the Submersible Transmitters in Packaged Sewer lift Stations is some designs need occasional cleaning.
Whatever liquid level measurement technology you choose for your new Packaged Sewer Lift insure that it has smart technology behind it and consult with the integrator to insure it works well with your PLC and pump control devices. So whether you prefer a simple float switch arrangement or microwave, water pressure, (hydrostatic) or submersible transducer level monitoring, look at the overall cost but go for quality and what will give reliable service for your next Packaged Sewer Lift Station. For reliable information on Packaged Sewer Lift Station we’ll see you at the station, next week!

“SEE YOU AT THE STATION”

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“The 1st annual Package Pump Station Report”

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The report on the state of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station in America Today is a mixed bag. In a report issued by a wide cross section of Civil Engineers in America the concept of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is being met with a good amount of acceptance by professional design engineers across most of our nation. The trend of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station as a viable alternate to that of the site built sewer lift station under the standard RFP, request for proposals, has created a the standard capitalistic frenzy of an imbalance between supply and demand dynamics i.e. a plethora of new start-ups. The growth of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market is demented by the shear number of competitors and many of these are brokers or catalog pump companies.

 

As BOLI labor costs increase, so will the market for Packaged Sewer lift Stations.

What is going to fuel the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market in America and the World? The biggest effect on growing this specialized market, is the stagnate economic conditions. No matter what the product if it’s related to construction few if any conditions make the negative aspects of a recession less of an effect. Government in recessionary times often attempt to jolt the economy with pay raises to the general populous in the form of raising the minimum wage or increasing public works labor rates. Whether or not you subscribe to this form of government intervention, the end result is an increase in market share for those who can avoid the forced labor cost increases. The good news is if you gain market share in a depressed market the news only gets better as the turnaround is coming and the packaged sewer lift station builder is due for an economic “Lift”!

The growth spike in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is centered within the micro sewer lift station, i.e. those stations whose horsepower ratings of the motor end of the pump is in the 2HP rating and under.
Companies like E-one and other micro packaged sewer lift station builders like Taylor Made Pump Stations are capitalizing on the utility and ease of shipping of these compact units. This market is primarily driven by low volume commercial units, government living quarters, shower and washing arrangements and smaller residential units. The micro packaged sewer lift station hydraulic flows are commonly determined from fixture unit quantities as derived from the UPC, uniform plumbing code. These smaller models of the municipal and macro Packaged Sewer Lift Station, are duplicates in almost every other way to their larger flow municipal and macro stations.

marks pictures 216The Packaged Sewer lift Station builder of America is “Pumped” on their products!

Observing the growth of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station business is nothing less than spectacular over the last 25 years. Driven by the desire to attain a product that is a standard by integrating of all the complex components, i.e. the electrical, mechanical, controls and the wet well structure into one quality operating sewer lift station is vital. The Packaged Sewer lift Station business is positioned for a great amount of growth over the coming decade. The concept of “Packaging” is not new to marketing and has as its best examples, products with “batteries included”. Who has not heard of the packaging concept created by Doughboy Pools? The slogan of “everyone loves a Doughboy Pool” was especially true for Dad. The company made millions out of packaging. Dads, across America were relived to find a supplier of swimming pools who gave as a package the structure and liner as well as the pump, skimmer and access ladder all in one assembly. Who would want to buy a camping tent and then go separately to purchase the hold down stakes or securing clamps? If you said “The good ole creative General Contractor might”, you may very well be right. The market has made the contemporary General Contractor a lean mean fighting machine for that ever fleeting “dollar over cost” goal.

Other sources for the Market on “Packaged Sewer Lift Stations “are our associates at Orenco Systems, Oldcastle Concrete Wilsonville and The Oregon Association of Water Utilities!

The last words of this blog are positive; the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market is on the brink of a huge growth spurt. The link to success in our market is consistency and good service to our design partners. The link to knowing what’s next in the Packaged Sewer lift station business is to continue to read “See you at the Station!

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The top 5 products Engineers Specify for Packaged Sewer Lift Stations.

Engineers are creatures of habit just like the rest of us belonging to the human race, but only to a degree. Most civil engineers have a special trait within them that limits that basic human trait that makes humans a bit robotic in nature. There are some engineers that when it comes to writing specifications for the Packaged Sewer Lift Station they just look at “boiler plate specs” of past jobs. For the most part I believe that engineers design around the premise of “quality in, equals’ quality out”

It is with that thought in mind that I have put together The Top Products Engineers Specify for pump stationPackaged Sewer Lift Stations.

 

 

 

Let’s start from the bottom up for those products that seem to find their way into the Packaged Sewer Lift Stations.

    1.  The most common type of station specified in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market is of the submersible duplex design. This type of station, made by a number of packaged station builders around the country utilizes the benefits and simplicity of the submersible pump and motor design. With the advent of sealing flange discharge ells and guide rails for easy retrieval of the pumps the steady growth and acceptance of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station was assured. For those municipal workers who are charged with the maintenance of a dry prime surface mount centrifugal stations the acronym NPSH becomes a very important element of moving liquids and loosing prime is a real concern in these stations. So, the verdict is in, the submersible Packaged Sewer lift Station is often specified.
    2.  The oxymoron of a clean Packaged Sewer Lift Station comes to mind with this next often specified product. The EZZ-Klean™ method is a large 6” HDPE Vacuum pipe usually of the same size as the vacuum truck suction pipe coupled to a wide mouth suction head that is placed directly on the bottom of the wet well floor. This product combined with the smooth, non-stick characteristics of our next most specified product makes for a nice 1-2 punch in the easy cleaning of sludge and sometime hard foreign objects from rocks to clinker of varying kinds. Looking for the key or hatch wrench in an overflow condition has brought to light just how easy the EZZ-Klean ™is to hook up to in an overflow condition.
      It is easy to see why the EZZ-Klean™ joins the top product list for Packaged Sewer Lift Stations.
    3.  The “strong but slick stuff”, GSE Stud Liner. This High Density Polyethylene is slick. Engineers love it because it endures the test of time. It is highly impact resistant so if a workmen s wrench drops from above; no worries the wrench will barely mar the liner; try that with a fiberglass liner! I guess you can see why fiberglass bathtubs are not exactly the choice for those in high ends homes, however they are the predominant tub in mobile homes, and i.e. they are cheap. Here is the main reason the engineering community is lauding the HDPE lined Packaged Sewer lift Station.#1 HDPE It is very durable, HDPE has a very low co-efficient of friction surface and its lower priced by about half as compared to the fiberglass tub. Finally I said the fiberglass option was cheap, well that is only in a mobile home, because the fiberglass bottom is controlled primarily by one company you the engineer are paying for one very expensive tub. Most engineers agree and many specify GSE, Stud Liner.
    4.  The pumps that do the heavy lifting in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station are Flygt-“N-Clog” submersibles a xylem brand. The Flygt submersible tried and true roto-dynamic pumps are engineering at its best. Other pumps manufactures make excellent submersible pumps. KSB and a few others have stood the test of the sewage wet well and came out as a top rated industrial effluent pump. That being said how Flyght stands out above the rest of the pump manufacture is that the Flygt Team of professionals simply show up. Engineers specify the N-Clog submersible because first off they are great pumps, but day in and day out Flygt/Xylem representatives are present in the trenches, engineer’s offices, bid openings and even on-site when the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is placed into service.. The growth in the share of the market that Flyght continues to capture is a bundle of three things. First the anti-clogging of the n-pump is a welcome relief for public works managers charged with the maintenance and operation of Sewer Lift Stations. The pumping industry has at its biggest challenge to reduce the energy use of pumps. Flygt –Xylem is on the cutting edge of energy savings in their many pump lines. Couple the technology with Xylems informed workforce and it’s no wonder there pumps are preferred by those professionals in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station industry.
    5.  The structure we all need, at least us in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station need the concrete pre-cast structure as supplied by Oldcastle Concrete Wilsonville, now Hanson Concrete. For over 40 years Oldcastle precast has been specializing in creating and delivering millions of tons of high quality precast products. As proof of Oldcastle market approval nearly every civil engineer office has a product spec catalog from Oldcastle concrete. The 1-2 punch that cements Oldcastle as a top supplier for the Packaged Sewer lift Station is the Contractor also appreciates the smooth glass like finish that is the distinct characteristic of the casting process of Oldcastle Concrete products.

There are many other fine products that go into the Packaged Sewer Lift Station. We just don’t have the time to write a book on all the individual components that make up the “packaged Sewer Lift Station” Maybe I should, I am sure it would be a #1 best seller, being such an exciting subject how could it not be.

Stay tuned for other interesting topics in the weeks to come and we’ll “See you at the station.”

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A Blog about Fog

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The “FATS, OIL and Grease, ( FOG) down below seems to be beneath many given the job of maintaining the critical elements of the Sanitary Sewer Lift Station. Much that is written about the Packaged Sanitary Sewer Lift Station covers the technical components. Many blogs cover the vast realm of controls with all varying electronic unit programmers. That which really resonates with professionals is the narratives on resonance and vibration gremlins. What Packaged Sanitary Sewer Lift Station builder isn’t interested in comparisons in the market of energy savings with Variable Speed Drives versus control Valves. The White Papers cover the challenges of meeting new and more stringent government standards for Premium efficient motors: the list goes on. As interesting as all the civil and M&E components are they all have their operational function threatened and face premature failure due to hydrogen sulfides if you don’t clean the fog in the Sanitary Sewer Lift Station.

Just like common grass decomposing builds up methane gas, Sewage effluent combined with food and grease going through the organic breakdown builds deadly hydrogen sulfide gas.

Here is the equipment in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station that is affected by Hydrogen Sulfide Gas.

    1. The concrete wet well
    2. The bolts and fasteners, ( Remember that 304 SS is no match for Hydrogen Sulfides over time)
    3. Hatches, ladders, and even railing above the hatch are susceptible to hydrogen sulfides.
    4. Discharge piping, and the vent ell.
    5. The rising main is further compromised by Fog as the presence of the greasy build can cause clogs and subsequent “SSOs” (sanitary sewer overflows).
    6. Electrical components if left to the corrosive binge of hydrogen sulfide and its 24/7 appetite, the term eaten away has real meaning.
    7. The pump itself although somewhat protected in the submersed condition, Hydrogen Sulfides in the reactionary organic breakdown process deteriorates the metals and adds a another area of destruction in the form of “cavitation induced by Hydrogen Sulfides”
    8. Liquid Limit measuring devices IE ultrasonic sensors and float switches can become totally inoperable from the “Goo”!
    9. Hoist Chains, and the guides can become rusty, pock marked, weakened “twigs”
    10. The danger of letting the bottom of your wet well “Boil” with the build-up FOG and the subsequent production of “HSG” is its deadly to those workmen or any personnel involved in inspection or maintenance of the Sanitary Sewer Lift Station.
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Put this in your daily log, “FOG, Kills”. Its negative effects are that of rust, electrolysis, and harsh chemical reactions all in one. Its costs to our sewer infrastructure annually runs in the billions, but costs in the lives claimed by Hydrogen Sulfide each year is beyond measure.

Most of the articles concerning Fog tell of special equipment and energy robbing mixers that the effectiveness of the components themselves requires attention and maintenance. What’s wrong with just cleaning the well periodically? We as managers and suppliers of Packaged Sanitary Lift Stations will spend thousands on technology to try and take care of a problem that sometimes basic cleaning will do the trick, and this is especially true of FOG.

The EZZ-Klean™, as Manufactured out of Medford, Or. Can Clean a Wet Well, without endangering the Workmen Charged with the task!

“See you next week at the station” and stay out of the fog.

“See you at The Station” A bridge over a troubled waste water lift station!

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A waste water lift station failing to move the waste water to its desired discharge point and a sewage overflow occurring as a result of a pumping component failure usually is an environmental disaster.

When the sewage overflow occurs near a river or stream, the possibility of a serious health hazard to the public exists; in some cases the total drinking water supply can be affected! If such a spill occurs be prepared for the government regulatory agencies such as the Department of Environmental Quality to pay you a visit along with a few “River Watch” environmental groups and the many media organizations will want a “piece of you” also. This blog is a reminder to log the locations of all WasteWater Lift Stations that are adjacent to rivers and streams and place an asterisk next to those stations noting their critical location. Once this is done perform more oversight of these waste water lift stations as added insurance to keep sewage waste out of our waterways. All public works officials who oversee the multitude of waste water lift stations in all areas of our cities and the outlying public lands are charged with an immense responsibility in keeping them functioning properly.

How to create a safe environment for our fragile waterways and keep a good public relations bridge between the cities residents and the public officials who stand watch over waste water lift stations.

 

In the sub title of this blog it states “A Bridge over a Troubled Waste Water station” clearly relating to “Simon and Garfunkel’s” melodic metaphoric song of the 60s to the possibilities of troubles relating to the dark waters of a sewage spill.

In the case of a waste water lift station overflowing what is the first thing you would attempt to do as a first responder at the scene? I would hope the first thought would be how can I mitigate this spill with the least damage to the environment and of course do it safely. The first goal is to get a knowledgeable person to the site that is both a competent person as defined by OSHA and is a competent technician who is familiar with the lift station that is in distress. There are a number of reasons for a lift station to experience an SSO, Sanitary Sewer Overflow, and due to wanting to limit this article to a volume under a book we will not attempt to perform a troubleshooting guide in this blog. With the redundancy that is built in to most municipal waste water lift stations it makes one wonder why so many waste water lift stations experience failures that produce SSO’s.

“The cure for Waste Water Lift Station overflows, Simplified, a “Black Paper”!

There are a number of articles on line that spell out a nearly fail safe way to eliminate most Waste Water Lift Station failures. The “Dry Prime” pumps emergency by-pass system as designed and on occasion specified for waste water lift station is a practical and good engineering in the goal to stop SSO’s. I feel comfortable in mentioning one manufacture in my blog that I feel offers a superior option to the conventional emergency generator back-up in lieu of a power failure. The Thompson dry prime or other leading dry prime pump manufactures should have been the system of choice (as a back-up ) by rule making agencies and design professionals nearly 50 years ago when backup redundancy became the standard rule for most municipal Waste water lift stations. If the Patent EZZ-Klean™ tube is utilized in the waste water lift station you already have the necessary component for sewage transfer under an emergency overflow situation. IE a stationary suction tube that you can hook onto safely and quickly in a sometime panicked situation. The EZZ-Klean™ system is a 1-2 punch to knock out SSO’s while its presence encourages periodic cleaning. The EZZ-Klean™ is available through Oldcastle concrete in Wilsonville and now in Portland with the acquisition of Hanson’s Concrete manhole division, in the greater Portland area.

The bridge to pristine waters that BMP, Best Maintainence Practices will take us to is worth the extra maintenance effort. As an engineer or public works official show you serious about protecting the environment from the possibility of a sewer overflow by specifying a Thompson Dry Prime Pump Backup option along with the easy adapt EZZ-Klean™ system. Continue to read the blog “See you at the station” for more helpful tips on operating your Waste Water Lift Stations that gives you visions of bridges over beautiful, clean and clear waters.

The Preferred Method of Securing a Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station

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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 of the free enterprise system as all business shall have equal access to markets.
The Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station is chosen as the first small business goal, under the “design /build’ method of procurement by the Small Business Act, under the slogan, “Give Small Business a Chance to Compete”

The Nations Waste Water Lift Stations Need immediate Repairs and Many More Need Replacement. The Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station by design fulfills most facets of the Design Build method of procurement, with the additional inherent benefit of being able to ship the main components of a Taylor Made Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station  within a 3-4 week time frame!
Taylor Made Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Stations and their components are already protecting parts of the Oregon coast, Private installations such as mobile home park “Lift Stations” and micro lift stations at residential developments. With these models in place why not have a proven “Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station” available quickly to other state and national governments. The “Team” at Taylor Made Pump Stations applauds the efforts of all state and federal officials to give the same opportunities afforded to large corporations under the “Design/Build, bid format to small business.

Bonus clauses written into the articles under the Small Business Act, to parallel the highly favorable language for early completion monetary awards afforded large corporations. This would benefit all small businesses especially pre-fab waste water lift station suppliers.

At “Taylor Made Pump Stations” we design in quality with easy to assemble and ship components. We welcome the challenge of the early completion bonuses and or liquidated damage clauses. What’s more the government should recognize the importance to the public to having the smaller projects completed early just as their counterparts are recognized for early completion of the larger projects.

Whereas the dollars saved in inspection time, insurance costs, and the costs of bond money is relative in scale to the size of the project, small business would appreciate a $500.00 per day early completion bonus. If the liquidated damage assessment is $500.00 per day as a cost to the tax payer then why not an incentive to save the money for that same taxpayer. Taylor Made Pump Stations stands ready to save the Government money on the three factors of savings associated with “Design/Build, bid procurement, initial engineering design cost, duration /time to deliver bid documents, and the energy savings in up to date technology designed into each and every Taylor “Prefabricated Waste Water lift Station!

The Government Recognizes The Benefits Of The Design/Build Process, When It Comes to Procuring Your Next “Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station” Consider The“Taylor Made” Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station And The Design/Build, Bid Process. If you are an advocate for small business, call your state and federal representative let them know that designating a portion of federal construction dollars to the small business “Design/Build, bid process would allow smaller firms to gain the valuable experience necessary to compete in this method of bidding.

Although the “Small Business Act” is only a vision at this point, we can stay in focus of all the issues regarding Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Stations by reading “See You At The Station”

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

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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 way to compare the strength and weakness of each manufacturer. It stands to reason that we would share with are clients the manufactures whose products represent the best value in a Packaged Waste Water Lift Station Taylor Made Pump Stations is a supplier of packaged Waste Water Lift Stations; we can assist you the engineer ,with the specifying of the components that will provide optimum pumping performance! Good engineers know the electrical/mechanical and hydraulic engineering aspects of a Packaged Waste Water lift Station. At Taylor Made Pump Stations it is our job as Professional Packagers Of Waste Water Lift Stations to mention why, in example, a pressure switch for its overall initial cost is a good value on a new or retro-fit Toff a “Dri-Prime waste water lift station. This inexpensive signal switch is the best method of preventing a dry run if there is a loss of prime to the system.

A Packaged Waste Water Lift Station is a made to order holding vessel usually deemed a wet well, most commonly made of concrete that is shipped with a base section that has cast into it base discharge elbows for the easy setting in of two submersible pumps, (the two pump model is called a duplex pump station). The individual concrete components consists of engineered anti-float base section and pre cast barrel sections sometimes with an inside liner of High Density Polyethylene (remember HDPE is much like a diamond, its last forever) for its anti-corrosion characteristics and delivered to the site by truck. The top of the concrete sections is fitted with a concrete lid that has an aluminum or stainless steel access hatch cast into it and those hatches are fitted with sockets to secure guide rails for an easy retrieval of the pumps via stainless steel chain that is attached to a small davit crane, which is included in the scope of supply. The waste water lift station is shipped with varying levels of controls for fully automatic operation and different options for monitoring from a base duplex motor control with basic signal switches to turn the pumps on/off to programmable logic controllers( PLC’s) for advanced monitoring of multiple signals.

The Team at Taylor, stands ready to make the suggestions that are cost effective solutions to produce a good quality Packaged Waste Water Lift Station. At

Taylor, we have over 35 years of experience in working on many different types of Packaged Waste and Potable Water Lift Stations.

We have put forth designs for engineers approval, including by pass pumping systems plans, electrical cord grip submittable that adapted safely to our equipment on a retro-fit lift station. We also submitted detailed planning that allowed the replacement of an existing Waste Water Lift Station while keeping it fully functional and building a new Lift Station in the same footprint. This was one of the only rebuilds of an existing Lift Stations on the West Coast at the time in which a complete Waste Water Lift Station was placed in the exact location of the old one, with full operation of existing station. Taylor received a letter of recommendation from the design engineer on this “Tight footprint Waste Water Lift Station”

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

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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.

 

  1. Packaged Waste Water Lift Station.  Is a concept of packaging all the electrical, mechanical and structural components that go into the making of a complete operational water or waste water lift station. As a part of the definition of packaging it is meant to assemble beforehand and usually in a controlled environment such as a building structure.
  2. Lined Wet Well. A methods of casting in place a non-corrosive membrane into the inside walls, floor and top of a concrete waster water lift station. The material most commonly set into the wet well to form a liner are made up of poly vinyl chloride (PVC) or high density poly ethylene (HDPE) in varying thicknesses but most commonly 30mil.
  3. A Concrete Wet Well.  When it is included as part of a packaged waste water lift station order is a reinforced precast structure formed in round sections called barrel sections in varying diameters and lengths .
    The base section of the wet well is the floor it comes with an anti-buoyancy block which is generally
    a thickened section of up to 18’’in diameter and also wider than the barrel sections, to create an
    loading area to resist uplift of the structure.
  4. Pre-Cored Pipe Penetrations. Usually applies to the situation of a waste water lift station having round holes pre-drilled to accommodate pipe entering the wet well. These core holes will be considerably larger than the pipe O.D. to allow for Elastomeric sealing products to be utilized.
  5. Field Core Pipe Penetrations. This mode of creating openings in a packaged waste water lift station is a service offered by Taylor Made Pump Stations and the equipment needed to drill the concrete structure in the field, is provided with the packaged waste water lift station. Field coring allows for a precise hole opening that may be required in the situation where an existing pipe elevation could vary.
  6. Valve vault.  The valve vault in a waste water lift station is most commonly a square concrete box structure as manufactured by Oldcastle Concrete. The pre-cast structure comes in varying sizes but an average dimension to suit most municipal waste water lift stations is 4’ wide by 6’ long by 4’ deep. In most all cases in will come with dual or single lids. Hatches are made of galvanized stainless steel or aluminum that are made of stainless or aluminum for their anti-corrosion capabilities.
  7. Control Systems.  Commonly conceived or designed for total automatic control of two motor driven pumps operating on standard 240V 3 Phase or 480V 3 Phase,(208 and 240V single phase are common on smaller HP motors, usually under 5HP).
  8. Programmable Logic Controller. (PLC) Is a digital computer used for automation of electrical/mechanical actions, such as control of “pumps, valves and warning alarms.” The abbreviation “ PLC” are registered 547px-RiserDiagram.2vg2trademarks of the Allen Bradley Company (Rockwell Automation). The PLC is a “current time” system since output results must be produced in conjunction to input conditions within a limited time, otherwise unintended actions will occur.
  9. Liquid Level Monitoring.   A wet well level is controlled commonly utilizing the following electronic equipment. Float Switches, present in many of today’s waste water lift station. These point level sensors comprised of a magnetic float moves in relation to the water’s surface. Usually tethered off a solid pole or rack floats are tied off to create an actuation range in which a certain volume of liquid will cause a rise or drop in the level of the liquid and thus cause a pump to turn on or off. Included as part of the packaged waste water lift station. These read type switch mechanisms can either be single pole, single throw or double pole, double throw.
  10. Transducer.   A hydrostatic pressure sensor is an example of a transducer; a transducer contains sensors and converts it signal to an electrical signal to operate other mechanical or electrical devices.
  11. Contact Ultrasonic Sensors.  A low energy field mounted sensor and integral solid state amplifier. These sensors will auto operate pumps, solenoid valves and high/low alarms.
  12. Power Distribution Block.  A main distribution block sized for incoming line power to a panel.
  13. Surge Protection. Made of a oxide silicon varistor. A lightening suppressor must be able to handle surges of a minimum of 60 thousand amps or 1,500 Joules.
  14. Phase Monitors.  Where 3 phase motors are installed a phase monitor is employed to monitor phase loss, under voltage and phase sequence with a single pole double throw switch.
  15. Variable Frequency Drives. Variable frequency drives operate under the principal synchronous speed of a AC motor is determined by the frequency of the AC supply and the amount of poles state of winding according to the relation: RPM= {{{60 \ times f}\over {p}}}.
  16. Circuit Breakers.  Taylor Made Pump Stations specifies in each packaged waste water lift station thermal magnetic breaker for each load served one for the transformer and one for each motor served.
  17. Contactor Overload Relay.  For motors less than 20 HP a magnetic across the line HP/Current rated contactor with a ambient temperature overload relay.
  18. Soft Starts.  Directly relates to reducing the torque delivered to the electric motor. This can be accomplished via a mechanical clutch, fluid drive, magnetic coupling or any derivative thereof that allows the across the line starting while decreasing the shaft torque to the load and thus avoid torque shock. Taylor Made Pumps Stations recommends soft starts as a money saving investment that increases overall MTBF, mean time before failure of the pump loader.

 

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