As part of an expansion to the high school, the city had to make provisions for increased sewer usage. Unfortunately the main sewer serving the school was barely sized for a school in the first place.
Engineers devised a rather clever solution consisting of a large holding tank and a pump system to discharge sewage at a controlled rate the municipal sewer could handle. The system pumps during off hours to empty the holding tank. The tank has a “tipping bucket,” similar to those commonly found at water parks, that fills up with water and dumps a large volume of water to flush the tank.
Our scope involved installing the pump system and rerouting the school sewer into the holding tank and the pump discharge back to the outflow to the city, as well as installing the tipping bucket system.
