If you ever come across a randomly bad smell coming from somewhere inside your house, there’s a good chance it has to do with either the sewage or drainage system. Both the sewage and drainage system have pumping stations as an integral part of the pumped-storage installation and they’re meant to pick up liquids from one place and take them to another. They can be used for a plethora of infrastructure systems, including the aforementioned – sewage and drainage systems.
A pumping station finds use everywhere where gravity cannot help, so all the waste from it needs to be flown through a special underground storage chamber, and thereafter, pumped into the main sewer. Furthermore, they can be used for foul water as well as surface water purposes, and the majority of them are designed to have 24 hour storage capacities.
Moreover, they provide integrated systems that are built-in and impact-resistant, and have strong materials for the housing such as polyethylene, precast concrete or glass-reinforced plastic. The pumping station is supplied with internal, pre-assembled and fitted pipework after which the submersible pumps and control equipment are fitted. Some of the features can include controls for a fully automatic operation, high level alarm indicators, and auto-coupling/guide-rail/pedestal system which can be used to enable an easy removal of the pumps for maintenance and repairs.
A pumping station can find its use almost anywhere, but it’s especially important in rural areas where proper sewage and drainage systems are not installed, or there are huge canals and excessive amounts of water nearby. Canal locks work in a way that makes the water to be lost from the upper canals every time vessels pass. Most lock gates are not as watertight as they should be, so leaks can be experienced from the higher levels.
Canals are usually fed by water from rivers and streams of upper parts which has diverted. However, if no source is available – a pumping station can be used to maintain adequate water levels. When there’s no external water supply available, back pumping systems are installed and water is extracted from the canal from the lowest lock of a flight and pumped right to the top of the flight.
Most importantly, pumping stations are an efficient and economic way of installing a drainage system suitable for mechanical building services like collecting and pumping liquids (like sewage, surface water and wastewater) from areas where gravity drainage is not possible.
