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Sewage Pump Station

A sewage pump station, also known as a lift station, is the housing for sewage pumps system. As you may or may not already know, the sewage pumps system is responsible for processing solid and liquid waste material from bathrooms and laundry rooms in homes and businesses, ultimately moving this material through the septic pipes underground to a water treatment plant above ground for purification.

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How Does A Sewage Pump Station Work?

A sewage pump station consists of sewage pumps, valves and specialized electrical equipment which are essential in moving waste away from a place of low elevation to a higher ground. The sewage pump station serves to pump water uphill against the force of gravity - as we all know, water flows downhill. One pump station will be connected to another as part of a network of pump stations but ultimately they all pump into a sewerage treatment plant.

Each sewage pump station is designed to work on one pump or a set of pumps that work together. If one pump fails, the rest take over. In addition to this, the sewage pump station is unmanned but a solution has been found to alert engineers of any problems. A sewage pump station will either have some sort of control or computerized program that will activate an alert when something has gone wrong. Sometimes the lift stations will report to one main sewage pump station in the area and this master station also serves to send messages to each system remotely.

How Does The Inside Of A Sewage Pump Station Look Like?

First of all, it should be noted that a sewage pump station is indeed a highly perilous area to be near, not least because of the lethal gases that may emanate from it. That is why the sewage pump station is typically designed so that access to the pumps and other parts can be obtained without the need for entering into the well.

Inside the sewage pump station is a well, the sewage pumps, a ball float or other similar device that can detect the level of water and a computerized control panel that manages the system, turning it on and off as required. The well is little more than a hole in the ground that is subdivided into two parts - wet and dry well. Where submersible sewage pumps are used, usually there is no need for a dry well and this is how modern sewage systems are being designed.