Installing water pipe

Waukesha Aeration Building

Outflow Building Piping

Part of the Great Lakes Water Alliance project to expand Milwaukee water to Waukesha and surrounding communities, we got involved in the last 10′ of an extensive pipeline. As water is pumped from Lake Michigan to supply western communities, water also needs pumping back to the Lake to replenish the supply.

The water is pumped to a point in the root river that naturally flows back to Lake Michigan. As water travels through lengthy pipelines, the oxygen separates out. Before dumping that de-oxygenated water into the river it needs to be re-oxygenated or it will kill the wildlife in and around the river.

Our scope involved piping up the Waukesha Aeration building. The aeration building flows water over a large staircase that churns up the water in a waterfall effect. We connected the building to the 30″ water pipes flowing in and out of the building and installed pumps and water piping for cleaning and maintaining the system.

This project structure for not just the Waukesha Aeration building, but the whole project, involved many tiers of financing and contractors. Funding came in part from a federal initiative as well as various state and local sources; the project was a joint venture of multiple overseeing contractors, of which hired a general contractor who then hired us as their subcontractor. We navigated the red tape and got our portion of the work done without any hiccups.

Air Piping

MCTS Bus Depot

Growing Scope

Just like many home remodeling projects, sometimes commercial jobs suffer from expanding scope once the project gets underway. That’s what happened at the MCTS bus depot renovation. Our original scope included replacing some floor drains and slightly relocating a few to accommodate the installation of new bus lifts, along with some compressed air piping for the pneumatic tools.

Once we began to cut out the old floor drain heads, we discovered extensively rotted drain and vent piping, and so full of grease and oil we had to abandon them.

Safety Relief Valve

Saukville Well #6

Growing communities need more fresh water

Faust Company won the public bid contract to install the plumbing and mechanic piping for the newly-constructed well #6 in Saukville. These projects include a wide variety of piping work which make them very interesting:

Plumbing: The well building itself has floor drains, hose bibbs and potable water lines for emergency shower and eyewashes.

Chemical Piping: The well injects chlorine into the well water to keep the water and pipe lines disinfected which requires highly sensitive scales and dosing pumps.

Well Piping: The well pumps water into a large reservoir, much like a large-scale version of a residential well tank. From there, the water is pumped out to the municipal water distribution system as needed.

NBHS Wet Well

New Berlin HS Pressure Sewer

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.