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Natural Treatment System Revisited
Edge of El Modena Park basin before plants grew in
Storm basin pump station performs during wet California winter.
Folks at Irvine Ranch Irrigation District (IRWD) in Orange County, Calif. are pleased with the performance of the El Modena Park storm basin, part of the San Diego Creek Natural Treatment System (www.naturaltreatmentsystem.org), a regional approach to treating urban runoff. In the first wet winter experience with the storm basin, some lessons have been learned while achieving nitrate removal.
During precipitation, runoff in the nearby flood control channel is diverted into the park’s man-made wetland. Besides reducing the direct flow into San Joaquin Marsh in the upper reach of Newport Bay, the constructed wetland is designed to naturally cleanse urban runoff before it reenters the channel. Plants at the perimeter of the basin help remove nitrates and other pollutants from the water. Keeping the water at just the right level for these plants to thrive, a key factor in biofiltration system’s success, is the job of the Romtec Utilities duplex submersible stormwater pumping system installed in 2008. Read more
Distribution warehouse gets submersible sewage pump station
Distribution warehouse pump station collects combined sanitary sewer, storm runoff and, potentially, water from the building's fire suppression sprinklers.
Pumping system handles combined sanitary sewer, stormwater and potential fire suppression system water.
Romtec Utilities recently supplied a sewage lift station to the new 750,000 square foot Ferguson Enterprises Regional Distribution Center built on the site of a former US Navy facility in Stockton, Calif. Thomas Graham Civil Design Group was the project engineer and pm2i was general contractor.
Romtec supplied all structural, mechanical, electrical andtelemetry systems in the station, which features a 6’ dia. pre-cast concrete wet well to collect the combined sanitary sewer and stormwater runoff, as well as potential drainage from the building’s fire suppression sprinkler system. Also included in the complete system are a pre-assembled valve vault and all ductile piping, U.L. listed electrical controls and SCADA, and two ITT Flygt submersible pumps that discharge through a 4” dia. force main to the municipal gravity sewer.
Urban Stormwater Retrofit Projects – reprinted from Stormwater, Sept. 2008
Complete Romtec Utilities Stormwater Pump station
The stormwater professionals interviewed for this story agreed that it’s a positive trend, and healthy for residents and the environment that municipalities are putting an increased emphasis on treating runoff in urban areas.
Manufacturers and municipal officials also agreed that this segment of the industry will continue to grow as federal treatment regulations grow ever stricter.
“The underlying mantra of ‘treat it all’ is driving the development of stormwater treatment in urban areas,” says Mark Sheldon of Romtec Utilities in Roseberg, OR. Sheldon’s company makes complete stormwater pumping systems that are often used in urban projects. Read more
An Innovative Solution to Building Capacity – reprint from Stormwater Solutions
3D view of Union City, Calif. stormwater pump station
Lift station, detention pond make Union City development possible
- By Megan Monson
Three years ago, officials in Union City, Calif., got some good news—and some bad news. The good news was that a developer was interested in building two major residential developments near the center of the city. The bad news? The storm drainage infrastructure in that area, the Line M channel, did not have the capacity to handle the additional runoff that the new construction would generate.
Ownership issues complicated the situation. The property slated for development was within Union City borders, but Alameda County was responsible for Line M, a concrete-lined open drainage channel that runs through the center of the city. With Line M at capacity, there was no way of discharging additional storm water, and that meant no development of any kind on the Union City site. Read more
Stormwater Pump Station – Franklin Park, IL
Romtec Utilities stormwater pump station in Franklin Park, Illinois
The village of Franklin Park, Ill. is home to about 20,000 people and includes the fourth largest industrial area in the state. Grand Avenue is a main east-west route between the area south of O’Hare International Airport and Chicago to the east. Rail lines intersecting Grand Ave. include the only north-south route of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Dozens of trains cross Grand Ave. every day.
Municipal leaders have been working for nearly 50 years to build an underpass designed to alleviate the traffic congestion at railroad crossings along Grand Avenue. “It was a horrible backup problem that impacted every driver on the road,” says David Talbot of Clark Dietz Engineers, who serves as the village engineer. Read more
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